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Drum handle
Object Number 88-51-10/50364
Display Title Drum handle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Handle, ivory, notch, perforated, carved human face at one end, with fingergrips
Classification
  • Handle
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 Ivory
Dimensions Overall: 12 x 2.3 x 3 cm (4 3/4 x 7/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50364 & 89268 & P.H.Ray, U.S.A./94/Nov 2 1884/Point Barrow
Provenance
Collector Lt. P. H. Ray (1882)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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