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Ivory hook used with sail on boat
Ivory hook used with sail on boat
Object Number 04-28-10/63561
Display Title Ivory hook used with sail on boat
Descriptions
Inventory Description Hook, ivory, carved, incised/pigmented, triangular perforation, glass bead inl
Classification
  • Hook
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bering Strait Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Lower Yukon River
Materials Ivory, Glass
Dimensions Overall: 14.9 x 4 x 2.3 cm (5 7/8 x 1 9/16 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 63561
Provenance
Collector Rev. Charles Lemon Hall
Donor Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley (1904)

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