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Unworked seal teeth
Object Number 52-6-10/33288
Display Title Unworked seal teeth
Descriptions
Object Description Unworked seal teeth
Inventory Description Teeth, seal?, 1 blackened
Classification
  • Bone
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Western Arctic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms Point Hope
Materials Tooth
Dimensions Overall: 3.8 x 1.9 x 1.7 cm (1 1/2 x 3/4 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 52-6-10/33288
Provenance
Provenance Dunbar Lockwood (1913)

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