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Object Number 88-51-10/50301
Display Title Pair of ivory ice creepers
Descriptions
Inventory Description Crampons, ice creepers, carved ivory, serrated bottom, perforated, leather laci
Classification
  • Accessory
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Asiatic Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Nome Census Area / St. Lawrence Island
Dimensions Overall: 10 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm (3 15/16 x 1 1/16 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 88-51-10/50301 & [63300] St. Lawrence I. Nelson
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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