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Ivory bodkin
Object Number 88-51-10/50080
Display Title Ivory bodkin
Descriptions
Inventory Description Needle or pin, carved ivory, incised and pigmented linear design
Classification
  • Needle
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Nunatkoromiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Kashunuk
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 24.3 x 1.3 x 1.1 cm (9 9/16 x 1/2 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50080; Alaska, Kush, 36417[crossed out], Nelson
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson (?)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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