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Object Number 93-14-10/49692.1
Display Title Soapstone dish for suspension over lamp
Descriptions
Inventory Description Fragments, dried and knotted sinew, belonging to soapstone dish 93-14-10/49692
Classification
  • Bowl
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Greenland Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Greenland
Additional Geographic Terms Arctic highlands
Materials Sinew
Dimensions Overall (estimation of one): 4 × 2 × 0.3 cm (1 9/16 × 13/16 × 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Provenance Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary (1892)

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