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Object Number 88-51-10/50187
Display Title Ivory bag fastener
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bag fastener, carved ivory, grooved mid-section, incised, pigemented bands
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Unaliqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 16.1 x 0.8 x 0.9 cm (6 5/16 x 5/16 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50187; 33281 Norton Sd
Provenance
Collector Unknown (?)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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