Ivory thong grip [.1] and a toggle [.2] [DCF Court Team 9/12/2002]

Collection type: Object
Description: Ivory thong grip [.1] and a toggle [.2] [DCF Court Team 9/12/2002]
Long description: Ivory thong grip ornamented on three of its sides with a row of small incised circles surrounding a central indentation [.1] and a toggle [.2] [JFK 14/12/2017]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Alaska
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector Frederick William Beechey; Field collector HMS Blossom; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1826
Date collected: ?On or before 1826
Acquisition information: Transferred: 11/03/1886
Materials and processes: Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Walrus Ivory Tooth Animal, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 87 mm, Length: max 22 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.760.1 Accession number: 1886.1.760.2 Other numbers: 760 (350)
Research and responses: Please note that there was no further information about Beechey on the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities. [L.Ph 23/3/2004]

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