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Object Number
88-51-10/50279
Display Title
Ivory belt toggles
Descriptions
Object Description
Ivory belt toggles
Inventory Description
Pendants, carved ivory, seal figures, incised and pigmented features, perforated
Classification
- Pendant
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1888
Culture
- Aiakamut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
/
Nome Census Area
/
Sledge Island
Materials
Ivory, Metal
Dimensions
Overall: 5.8 x 1.8 x 2 cm (2 5/16 x 11/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
50279 & 44820 & Sledge
Provenance
Collector
Unknown
(?)
Donor
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88-51-10/50174 | Ivory toggles |
Button
Pipe |
St. Michael
| |
| 98-18-10/51968 | Ivory toggles in form of seal |
Button
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 88-51-10/50191.1 | Belt toggles. |
Accessory
|
St. Michael
| |
| 88-51-10/50279.1 | Ivory belt toggle |
Raw Material
Button |
Sledge Island
| |
| 98-18-10/51986 | Toggles in form of seal |
Fishing and trapping
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 88-51-10/50075 | Ivory toggle |
Pendant
|
Alaska
| |
| 45-28-10/27702 | Ivory needle case w/ ivory & copper needles, reamers, thimble & toggles attached |
Container
|
North Slope Burough
| |
| 88-51-10/50278 | Ivory toggles |
Ornament
|
Sledge Island
| |
| 88-51-10/50191 | Belt toggles |
Button
Raw Material |
St. Michael
| |
| 88-51-10/50174.1 | Ivory toggle. Holes in toggle suggest its use as an amulet to be hung. |
Accessory
|
St. Michael
| |
| 88-51-10/49972 | Toggles |
Tools
|
Alaska
| |
| 53-36-60/10150.1 | 2 ivory and iron toggles or harpoon heads for walrus hunting |
Harpoon
|
Siberia
|