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Object Number 14-27-10/85845
Display Title Bone skin dresser
Descriptions
Inventory Description Scraper, carved bone, leather and reed wrapped handle, notched tip
Classification
  • Scraper
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Gitksan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia / <County> / Kishgagass Village
Additional Geographic Terms Babine River
Dimensions Overall: 17 x 2.3 x 0.8 cm (6 11/16 x 7/8 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 14-27-10/85845
Provenance
Collector Lt. George Thornton Emmons (?)
Donor Lt. George Thornton Emmons (1914)

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