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adornment: comb
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armament, ethnographic: arrow
armament, ethnographic: bow
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armament accessory, ethnographic: pouch, shot
armament accessory, ethnographic: pouch, shot ?
armament accessory, ethnographic: sheath, knife
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astronomical t&e: telescope, achromatic(triple achromatic)
awl?
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building: house, country
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clothing, footwear: shoe, snow(pair)
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order, Italian: Military Merit: St.George, Knight, 3rd Class
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presentation artifact: box, freedom
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Prize medal, British: Royal Geographical Society, 1835
relic: tripe de roche(gyrophoron hyperborea)
scoop
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Arctic Exploration: Back's voyage, 1833-1835
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Arctic Exploration: Buchan's voyage, 1818
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Silver Freedom box (Freedom box)
George Back Athenaeum Portraits No.50 (Print)
Geo. Back. Admiral Arctic Explorer b1796-d1878 Athenaem portraits No.50 (Print)
Tripe de Roche
Captn Back, R.N (Print)
A crooked knife, also known as mukutakan or mocotaugan. (Crooked knife)
'The Arctic Council discussing the plan of search for Sir John Franklin' (Print)
A knife with a leaf-shaped, two-edged steel blade with a bone handle secured by rivets. (Knife)
Prize medal: Royal Geographical Society 1835 (Prize medal)
Prize medal: Royal Geographical Society 1837 (Prize medal)
Order of St.George for Military Merit, Knight, 3rd Class (Order)
Ivory model of an awl, creaser, or marlin spike used in working skins for clothes and boots or sinews for bows. (Model)
Ivory model of a comb, probably from the Eastern Arctic (Model)
A shot pouch made of bleached caribou skin, sewn with sinew (Shot pouch)
A brown wool broadcloth octopus bag edged with blue and off white ribbon (possibly a faded red) and small white beads (Bag)
Knife (Knife)
Arrow (Arrow)
Walrus ivory spatula (Spatula)
Arrow (Arrow)
Arrow (Arrow)
Model of a snow knife (Model)
Arrow (Arrow)
Arrow (Arrow)
Arrow (Arrow)
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