Pipe made of walrus tusk

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Object Number 67-9-10/138

Display Title Pipe made of walrus tusk

Descriptions

Inventory Description Carved ivory pipe, wooden underneath, plain.

Classification

Pipe
Raw Material

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Western Eskimo

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / United States / Alaska

Materials Ivory

Dimensions Overall: 26.5 x 3.8 x 2.9 cm (10 7/16 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 67-9-10/138

Provenance

Collector Unknown (?)

Donor Boston Athenaeum (1867)

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