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Wooden dish with ivory handle
Wooden dish with ivory handle
Object Number 03-1-10/62752
Display Title Wooden dish with ivory handle
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden dish with ivory handle probably used for feeding ancestors.
Inventory Description Cup, cylindrical incised bark, leather stitched seam, flat base, worked bone han
Classification
  • Cup
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Bark, Bone, Leather, Wood, Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 5.5 x 6.6 cm (2 3/16 x 2 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 62752
Provenance
Dealer Grace A. Nicholson (12/01/1903)
Collector Unknown (01/01/1870-01/01/1876)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (12/01/1903)

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