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Crooked knife handles
Object Number 13-52-10/88512
Display Title Crooked knife handles
Descriptions
Inventory Description Handles, carved bone, curved, 1 with worn perforation and incised grooves
Classification
  • Handle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Qayaigsigvigmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms Cape Smyth, Point Barrow, vicinity of
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 15.9 x 1.9 x 1 cm (6 1/4 x 3/4 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 88512
Provenance
Collector Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1911-1912)
Donor Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1913)
Donor John B. Stetson, Jr. (1913)

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