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51-34-29
From: United States of America | Alaska | Aleutian Islands | Shemya Island
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | 51-34-29 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Aleut |
Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Aleutian Islands | Shemya Island |
Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Whale Bone |
Description | Roughly rectangular with one curved long side; deep slot into smaller end; large rectangular piercing behind slot; drilled hole (to about half the thickness of the bone). All edges worn. Has long diagonal groove from behind middle of one side to wide end. |
Height | 3.2 cm |
Length | 19.5 cm |
Width | 8.3 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Chester Gildea, 1951 |
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