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Object Number 88-51-10/50279.1
Display Title Ivory belt toggle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ivory toggles, seal shaped, perforated, stone eyes, incised features
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Button
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Aiakamut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Sledge Island
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 6.3 x 1.9 x 1.3 cm (2 1/2 x 3/4 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 50279; 45223; 45035; Sledge I.
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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