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Ivory knife
Object Number 88-51-10/50285
Display Title Ivory knife
Descriptions
Inventory Description Knife, carved ivory
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Aiakamut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Nome Census Area / Sledge Island
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 10.6 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm (4 3/16 x 9/16 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50285, 44781 [crossed out], Sledge I.
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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