Box or bag handle

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Object Number 88-51-10/50283

Display Title Box or bag handle

Descriptions

Inventory Description Handle, ivory, incised and pigmented fox or otter head at one end, perforated

Classification

Handle

Department Ethnographic

Date 1800-1888

Culture

Aiakamut

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / United States / Alaska / Sledge Island

Materials Ivory

Dimensions Overall: 18 x 1.6 x 1.1 cm (7 1/16 x 5/8 x 7/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 50283; 45150 / Sledge

Provenance

Collector Edward William Nelson (1876)

Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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