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Button, mid-19th century (CH 18711597-2)

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Button, mid-19th century (CH 18711597-2)

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Circular button, convex (with flattened top), tin back and brass shank. Button is made of a disc of carved bone showing a dog standing. On reverse: "Extra fein."

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Bone carving encompasses the acts of creating art, tools, and other goods by carving animal bones, antlers, and horns. It can result in the ornamentation of a bone or the creation of a distinct object. Bone carving has been practiced by a variety of world cultures, sometimes as a cheaper, and recently a legal, substitute for ivory carving. It was important in prehistoric art, with notable figures like the Swimming Reindeer, made of antler, and many of the Venus figurines.

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2016
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Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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