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Image Not Available for Fishing line of whale-bone
Fishing line of whale-bone
Image Not Available for Fishing line of whale-bone
Object Number 67-24-10/632
Display Title Fishing line of whale-bone
Descriptions
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Arctic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Additional Geographic Terms Anderson River
Provenance
Collector Robert MacFarlane
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1867)

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