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Object Number
88-51-10/50102
Display Title
Antler wedge
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Worked bone, wedge-shaped at one end, other rounded
Classification
- Tools
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1888
Culture
- Nunivaarmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
/
Nunivak Island
Materials
Bone
Dimensions
Overall: 20 x 4.5 x 3.5 cm (7 7/8 x 1 3/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
50102 & 954 (crossed out) / Nunivak Id / W.H. Dall
Provenance
Collector
William Healey Dall
Donor
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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