Alaska -- Antiquities; Eskimos; Eskimos -- Anthropometry; Indians of North America -- Alaska; Indians of North America -- Yukon
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FOSSIL IVORY SPECIMENS SHOWING THE OLD CURVILINEAR DESIGNS. NORTHERN
BERING SEA
(A. H. coll., 1926, U.S.N.M.)]
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OBJECTS SHOWING THE OLD FOSSIL IVORY ART. NORTHERN BERING SEA
(U.S.N.M., Nos. 1 and 3, coll. A. H., 1926.)]
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FOSSIL IVORY NEEDLE CASES AND SPEAR HEADS, NORTHERN BERING SEA, SHOWING
FINE WORKMANSHIP
(A. H. coll., 1926, U.S.N.M.)]
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_a_, Small, finely made objects in fossil ivory and stone (the head),
from the ruins at Port Hope (A. H. coll., 1926.)
_b_, Old fossil ivory objects, northern Bering Sea. The article to the
right is almost classic in form; it is decorated on both sides. (A. H.
coll., 1926, U.S.N.M.)]
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FOSSIL IVORY COMBS. UPPER BERING SEA
(A. H. coll., 1926)]
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FOSSIL IVORY OBJECTS FROM THE UPPER BERING SEA REGION. TRANSITIONAL ART
(Museum of the Agricultural College, Fairbanks, Alaska.)]
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OLD BLACK FINELY CARVED FOSSIL IVORY FIGURE, FROM THE NORTHEASTERN
ASIATIC COAST
(Loan to U.S.N.M. by Mr. Carl Lomen.)]
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WOODEN FIGURINES FROM A MEDICINE LODGE, CHOCO INDIANS, PANAMA
(U.S.N.M. colls.)]
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Top: Manche de poignard en ivoire, avec sculpture représentant un
renne. Montastruc (Peccadeau de l'Isle; in de Quatrefages (A.), Hommes
fossiles, Paris, 1884, p. 50)
Left: Two beautiful knives of fossil mammoth ivory lately made by a
Seward Peninsula Eskimo. (Gift to the U.S.N.M. by A. H., 1926.)
Right: Two old ceremonial Mexican obsidian knives.]
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