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Object Number
88-51-10/49979
Display Title
Ivory knives
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Knife, incised blade and handle, curved tip
Classification
- Fishing and trapping
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1888
Culture
- Unlaktologamut Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms
Unlaktologamut
Materials
Ivory
Dimensions
Overall: 28.3 x 3.1 x 0.7 cm (11 1/8 x 1 1/4 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
49979/ 38H8/ 22871/ Nylall
Provenance
Collector
Unknown
(1838-1886)
Donor
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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