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Object Number 13-52-10/88617
Display Title Bone tube
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tube, carved bone, splitting lengthwise, ends chipped
Classification
  • Tube
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Navugmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 6 x 1.1 x 0.9 cm (2 3/8 x 7/16 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88617
Provenance
Collector Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1911-1912)
Donor John B. Stetson, Jr. (1913)
Donor Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1913)

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