Earrings

Museum number:
2-358a,b
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Large pair in ivory, inlaid with pyrities of iron and blue glass beads (several missing).
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:
Earrings (jewelry)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
For medicine man.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 7.6 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 2-358a,b, described as Large pair in ivory, inlaid with pyrities of iron and blue glass beads (several missing).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 2-358a,b, described as Large pair in ivory, inlaid with pyrities of iron and blue glass beads (several missing).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 2-358a,b, described as Large pair in ivory, inlaid with pyrities of iron and blue glass beads (several missing).

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