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Whalebone cup with wooden bottom
Whalebone cup with wooden bottom
Object Number 88-51-10/50369
Display Title Whalebone cup with wooden bottom
Descriptions
Inventory Description Cup, wrapped baleen sides tied with baleen strips, wood base
Classification
  • Cup
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Utqiaguigmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow
Materials Baleen, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 5.6 x 10.8 x 9.1 cm (2 3/16 x 4 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50369, [89352], [1301.], POISON: Ooglaamie, 1883 / J. Murdoch U.S.A.
Provenance
Collector John Murdoch (1883)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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