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Ivory Handle
Ivory Handle
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Ivory Handle

Datec. 1840
DimensionsOverall: 1 1/4 × 1/2 × 11 in. (3.2 × 1.3 × 27.9 cm)
Object numberT0606
Credit LineLoan from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust
Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor, NYC
ProvenanceGeorge Terasaki, New York City
BibliographyPenney, David W. and George C. Longfish. Native American Art. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1994, p.251, top left.

Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.444.

Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 495.
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1875-1900
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200 BC-100 AD
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Old Bering Sea II (Siberian Yup'ik)
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Pendant
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1880-1910
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