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Object Number 14-27-10/85855
Display Title Bone skin dressers
Descriptions
Object Description Bone skin dressers
Inventory Description Scrapers, carved bone, leather wrapped handles, etched design, 1with 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
Materials Bone, Leather
Dimensions Overall: 24.4 x 2.7 x 1.4 cm (9 5/8 x 1 1/16 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 14-27-10/85855A & 14-27-10/85855B
Provenance
Collector Lt. George Thornton Emmons (?)
Donor Lt. George Thornton Emmons (1914)

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Bone skin dressers
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Scraper
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Bone skin dresser
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Scraper
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Bone skin dresser
14-27-10/85844 Bone skin dresser
Scraper
Kishgagass Village
Bone skin dresser
14-27-10/85843 Bone skin dresser
Scraper
Kishgagass Village
Bone skin dresser
14-27-10/85846 Bone skin dresser
Scraper
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Skin dresser.
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Texas
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Biface
Uniface
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