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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
- Legacy documentation: