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Object Number 88-51-10/50293
Display Title Sharpening stone
Descriptions
Inventory Description Whetstone, ground stone, rectangular, broken perforation
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Asiatic Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Nome Census Area / St. Lawrence Island
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 9.8 x 3 x 1.4 cm (3 7/8 x 1 3/16 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50293 & [63528]\St. Lawrence I.\Nelson
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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