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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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