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Object Number 53-36-60/10151
Display Title Plaited seal skin line with whalebone toggle; tow line for catching +
Descriptions
Inventory Description Line, bundle of braided and wrapped hide with perforated bone toggle at 1 end
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Chukche
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Russia / Siberia
Materials Hide, Bone
Dimensions Overall: 35.5 x 32 x 7.7 cm (14 x 12 5/8 x 3 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53-36-60/10151

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