Button

Museum number:
2-393
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Whale-shaped ivory.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Northwest Bering Sea
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Buttons (fasteners)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 4.2 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Button, accession number 2-393, described as Whale-shaped ivory.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Button, accession number 2-393, described as Whale-shaped ivory.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Button, accession number 2-393, described as Whale-shaped ivory.

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