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Sharpening stone
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Object Number 88-51-10/50292
Display Title Sharpening stone
Descriptions
Object Description Sharpening stone
Inventory Description Worked stone
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Asiatic Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Nome Census Area / St. Lawrence Island
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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Polishing & sharpening stones; casts
68-13-40/3303 Polishing & sharpening stones; casts
Casting
Lombardy
Image Not Available for Sharpening stone
88-51-10/50160 Sharpening stone
Alaska
Sharpening stone
39-17-70/1326 Sharpening stone
Tools
Karon
Ground stone, abraiding stone and sharpening stone fragment with grooved center
76-46-10/10903 Ground stone, abraiding stone and sharpening stone fragment with grooved center
Abrading Stone
Sharpening stone
Trenton
Ground stone, sharpening stone fragment
76-46-10/10924 Ground stone, sharpening stone fragment
Sharpening stone
Trenton
Ground stone, sharpening stones with multiple incisions
76-46-10/10904 Ground stone, sharpening stones with multiple incisions
Sharpening stone
Trenton
Ground stone, sharpening stone, incision in center
76-46-10/10902 Ground stone, sharpening stone, incision in center
Sharpening stone
Trenton
Sharpening stone
97-9-40/49746 Sharpening stone
Ground Stone
Denmark
Image Not Available for Sharpening stone
76-9-10/9875 Sharpening stone
Abrading Stone
Turner's Mound
Image Not Available for Stone chisel; "sharpening stone"
71-19-40/4998 Stone chisel; "sharpening stone"
Ground Stone
St. Aubin
Ground stone pounding or sharpening stone
2002.1.1472 Ground stone pounding or sharpening stone
Ground Stone
Raw Material
Bohemia
Ground stone, grooved sharpening stones
79-42-10/19043 Ground stone, grooved sharpening stones
Sharpening stone
Trenton