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Object Number 2004.24.19124
Display Title Common hair seal
Descriptions
Object Description Common Hair Seal. North America, Alaska.
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Field
  • Hunting
Subject
  • Common
  • Seal
  • Animal
  • Hair
  • Mammal
Department Photographic
Date 1936?
Artist Elmer T. Forsling
Culture
  • Arctic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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