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Provenance:

Various sources including Helena Seecot, Brevig Mission, AK; Native Hospital Gift Shop, Anchorage, AK;
Acquired by the consignor from the above

Note:

Two unembellished ivory and two whalebone labrets, and one in ivory with incised designs, individually inscribed with collector's inventory numbers.

Related Works:
Miles, Charles, Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America, (New York: Bonanza books, 1963), 141, pl. 5.34.
Fitzhugh, William W. and Susan A. Kaplan, Inua, (Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1982), 147, pl. 172.
National Museum of the American Indian, catalog no. 5/951. Click here to read more
National Museum of the American Indian, catalog no. 6/7882. Click here to read more

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Further reading:

Looking Back: Archaic Arctic Art & Artifacts