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Fish hook, stone sinker and whalebone leader
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Object Number 88-51-10/50268
Display Title Fish hook, stone sinker and whalebone leader
Descriptions
Object Description Fish hook, stone sinker and whalebone leader
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Aiakamut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Sledge Island
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson (1880)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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