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- Museum number:
- 2-4269
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004269
- Alternate number:
- x-415 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Sealskin. Looped thong through ivory carving of seal head and wolf head back to back. Grass bundle attached.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Pastolik, Wade Hampton Borough, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Pastolik
- Culture or time period:
- Malemiut Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Materials:
- Ivory (material) and Rawhide
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- For hauling dead seals or other heavy weights over snow or ice.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- carving— length 5.8 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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