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Object Number 04-28-10/63512
Display Title Steel awl
Descriptions
Inventory Description Awl, steel point, copper and steel wire wrapped handle
Classification
  • Mechanical
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Northern Athapaskan
  • Tanana
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Tanana River
Materials Steel, Copper
Dimensions Overall: 14.4 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm (5 11/16 x 1/2 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 63512
Credit Line Exchange with the Department of Anthropology, Unviersity of California, Berkeley, 1904
Provenance
Collector Rev. Charles Lemon Hall (1894-1901)
Exchange participant Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1904)

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