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Object Number
88-51-10/50065
Display Title
Ivory top. May be button to spin on.
Descriptions
Object Description
Ivory top-perceived as "button" by recent PMAE workers: may be button to spin on
Inventory Description
Disk, perforated and incised
Classification
- Button
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1888
Culture
- Aglurmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms
Bristol Bay
Materials
Ivory
Dimensions
Overall: 2.9 x 2.8 x 0.6 cm (1 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
50065/ 56048b/ Bristol Bay/ C.L. McKay
Provenance
Collector
Charles L. McKay
(?)
Donor
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98-18-10/51987.4 | Button, carved ivory |
Button
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| 98-18-10/51966 | Ivory buttons-perforated |
Button
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| |
| 98-18-10/51967 | Ivory buttons-square with incised circle |
Button
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 98-18-10/51965 | Ivory buttons with incised circle motif |
Button
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 98-18-10/51963 | Ivory buttons with incised circle motif |
Button
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 98-18-10/51964 | Ivory buttons with incised circle motif |
Button
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 98-18-10/51987.2 | Button, carved ivory |
Button
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 15-14-60/86693 | Ivory buttons, animal figures |
Button
|
Siberia
| |
| 98-18-10/51987.5 | Button, carved ivory duck figure |
Button
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 98-18-10/51973 | Ivory buttons |
Button
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 15-14-60/86692 | Ivory buttons, bird figures |
Button
|
Siberia
| |
| 88-51-10/50166 | Ivory belt button |
Button
|
St. Michael
|