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Object Number 88-51-10/50278
Display Title Ivory toggles
Descriptions
Inventory Description Two toggles, one with inlaid features
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Aiakamut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Sledge Island
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 5.7 x 1.9 x 1.5 cm (2 1/4 x 3/4 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 50278 / 44837/ 44815 / sledge 1
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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