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Object Number
88-51-10/50325
Display Title
Ivory sinker for fishline
Descriptions
Object Description
Ivory sinker for fishline
Inventory Description
Sinker, ivory, carved zoomorphic form, inlay eyes, perforated
Classification
- Sinker
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1888
Culture
- Kotzebue Sound
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
Additional Geographic Terms
Kotzebue Sound
Materials
Ivory
Dimensions
Overall: 5.8 x 1.6 x 1.4 cm (2 5/16 x 5/8 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
50325 & [48667] &Kotzebue
Provenance
Collector
Edward William Nelson
(1881)
Donor
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88-51-10/50215 | Ivory sinker in form of fish |
Sinker
|
Alaska
| |
| 98-18-10/52054 | Ivory sinkers |
Sinker
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 88-51-10/50125 | Ivory sinker in form of fish |
Sinker
|
Alaska
| |
| 976-60-10/57755 | Bone fish-shaped sinker (?) with eyeholes drilled in top. |
Sinker
|
Canada
Alaska? | |
|
Image Not Available
for Stone sinkers for nets or fishline
| 33-54-10/1675 | Stone sinkers for nets or fishline |
Ohio
| ||
| 08-8-10/73013 | Ivory sinker |
Sinker
|
Alaska
| |
| 04-28-10/63536 | Ivory sinker and whalebone leader |
Sinker
|
Alaska
| |
| 88-51-10/50254 | Sinker for fish line |
Sinker
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 88-51-10/50257 | Sinkers for fish line |
Sinker
|
Nome Census Area
| |
| 973-33-10/51998 | Ivory sinker and fishook. Ivory eyes inlaid with dark shell pupil. |
Fishhook
Raw Material |
North America
| |
| 50-45-10/32994 | Ivory plummet (?) perforated |
Utilized ivory
|
Kitneapaluk
| |
| 50-45-10/32995 | Ivory plummet (?), perforated |
Utilized ivory
|
Kitneapaluk
|