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Object Number 88-51-10/50191
Display Title Belt toggles
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved ivory toggle, fish shaped, carved geometric design
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Button
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Unaliqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / <County> / St. Michael
Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 4.8 x 1.1 x 1 cm (1 7/8 x 7/16 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50191
Provenance
Collector Lucien M. Turner
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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