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Ipiutak
Deering, Kotzebue Sound, Alaska
Deering, Kotzebue Sound, Alaska
100 - 600 CE
marine mammal ivory
height: 2 ⅛"
Inventory # E4405
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Excavated in Deering, AK
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Department of Ethnography, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Cat. No. P4109 – See: Wardwell, Allen. Ancient Eskimo Ivories of the Bering Strait. New York: Hudson Hills, 1986, pg. 114, pl. 149, for a very similar head excavated in 1940 by Helge Larsen and Froelich Rainey at the Ipiutak site near Point Hope, Alaska
Department of Ethnography, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Cat. Nos. P4688 and P4410.1 – See: Ibid, pg. 115 for two more heads excavated by Larsen and Rainey at the Ipiutak site
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