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Comb for cleaning deer skins
Comb for cleaning deer skins
Object Number 88-51-10/50359
Display Title Comb for cleaning deer skins
Descriptions
Inventory Description Comb, cylindrical, tines at both ends, incised middle
Classification
  • Comb
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Navugmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 8.5 x 3.3 x 2.8 cm (3 3/8 x 1 5/16 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50359/ 89360/ PH Ray, USA/ 894/ Point Barrow
Provenance
Collector Lt. P. H. Ray (1882)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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