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Object Number 88-51-10/49972
Display Title Toggles
Descriptions
Object Description Toggles
Inventory Description Toggles, carved ivory, round, grooved, perforated, incised and pigmented design
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Askinakmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Southwest; Askinuk
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 1.7 x 1.9 x 1.7 cm (11/16 x 3/4 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 49972, 31077[crossed out], Ask
Provenance
Collector Unknown (1838-1886)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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