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Object Number 23-29-10/98087
Display Title Toggle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Toggle, carved bone, 2 perforations, grooved.
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • East Greenland Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Greenland
Additional Geographic Terms Greenland, Eastern
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 3 x 1.8 x 0.5 cm (1 3/16 x 11/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 98087
Provenance
Provenance Christian Leden (1923)

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