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Object Number
04-28-10/63536
Display Title
Ivory sinker and whalebone leader
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Sinker, carved ivory, perforated with sinew cord attached to bone leader
Classification
- Sinker
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Kuigpagmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms
Bering Sea; Lower Yukon River
Materials
Ivory, Bone, Metal, Sinew, Thread
Dimensions
Overall: 8.6 x 1.9 x 1.7 cm (3 3/8 x 3/4 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
63536
Provenance
Collector
Rev. Charles Lemon Hall
Donor
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
(1904)
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