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Box

Walrus tusk box with wooden base and lid. The surface is decorated with ring ornaments. Such boxes were used to store jewellery. They were also used to store powder and primers. "Kapselautlok", i.e. primer box

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Box
Dimensions
Length: 8,2 cm
Width: 3,8 cm
Depth: 12,7 cm
Material/Technique
Walrus tooth, Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV A 4656 a,b

Provenance and sources

where
Alaska [Department]
who
Jacobsen, Johan Adrian - Collectors

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