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Museum number:

2-9393

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21020009393

Alternate number:

P. 20 ? (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.26 and Acc.371

Object count:

1

Description:

Fine toothed hair comb of walrus ivory, engraved; multiple teeth; minor damage to top and one side; incised band above teeth with three repeats of vertical line crossed by a V.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Cape Prince of Wales, Coast of Bering Strait, Bering Strait

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska; Bering Strait; Cape Prince of Wales

Culture or time period:

Alaskan Eskimo

Collector:

H. H. Cushing and Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection date:

ca. 1901

Taxon:

Odobenus rosmarus

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

1.8 Toilet Articles

Accession date:

December 16, 1902 and May 1909

Department:

Cat. 2 - North America (except Mexico and Central America)

Dimensions:

length 5.2 centimeters

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