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Object Number 88-51-10/50308
Display Title Carving representing seal
Descriptions
Inventory Description Pendant, carved ivory seal, incised and pigmented features, perforated
Classification
  • Pendant
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Asiatic Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Nome Census Area / St. Lawrence Island
Materials Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 5.4 x 1.9 x 1.4 cm (2 1/8 x 3/4 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50308, [49186] / Nelson / St L
Provenance
Collector Edward William Nelson
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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