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Object Number 94-57-10/R108
Display Title Pick, bone (metacarpus) and spruce fiber lashing. Flat and wide at butt-end.
Descriptions
Object Description Pick, bone (metacarpus) and spruce fiber lashing. Flat and wide at butt-end, ta
Inventory Description Pick, carved bone, perforated, bark wrapped, incised and pigmented decoration
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1894
Culture
  • Navugmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / <County> / Point Barrow
Materials Bone, Bark
Dimensions Overall: 25.6 x 3.3 x 2.1 cm (10 1/16 x 1 5/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object R\108
Provenance
Collector Frederick H. Rindge (?)
Donor Frederick H. Rindge (1894)

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