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Object Number 88-51-10/50476
Display Title Sea otter club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, half-round head with carved facial features, punctate shaft, small broken teeth embedded throughout head
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Haida
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia / Graham Island
Additional Geographic Terms Masset Bay
Materials Wood , Tooth
Dimensions Overall: 39 x 7.1 x 9 cm (15 3/8 x 2 13/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88-51-10/50476; 88832
Provenance
Collector James G. Swan (1883)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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