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Ear pendants
Object Number 88-51-10/50074
Display Title Ear pendants
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ivory earrings, incised black punctate design, perforated
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Earring
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Nunatkoromiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Kashunuk
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 1.9 x 1.3 x 1.1 cm (3/4 x 1/2 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 50074; Kush
Provenance
Collector Unknown (?)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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