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- Museum number:
- 2-6770
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020006770
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Slate skin dressing cobble; Russian letters 'HNKOYA', transliterated 'Nekogya' (Nikoshia)and "1832" scratched on one side of stone.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska Eskimo Russian America (U.S. Historic); Eskimo
- Culture or time period:
- Russians
- Collection date:
- 1800-1898
- Materials:
- Slate (rock)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- to soften skin
- Department:
- Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
- Legacy documentation:
-