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Wooden seal shaped float with carved head, nose and mouth and inlaid green eyes, possibly glass? A small wooden peg has been inserted in the top rear of the float. There is an ivory toggle where the hind flippers would be and a matching ivory toggle beneath the neck. Attached to the front toggle is an ivory rattle shaped like a seal head with carved mouth, nostrils and ear holes and inlaid eyes. The float would have been attached to a net and the ivory rattle would have alerted a hunter to something having been caught in the net.
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