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Bow drill set, including drill with steel point and wooden shaft
Bow drill set, including drill with steel point and wooden shaft
Object Number 93-14-10/49700
Display Title Bow drill set, including drill with steel point and wooden shaft
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Niortuut
Object Description Bow-drill complete, including drill with steel point and wooden shaft
Inventory Description Drill set, bone bow, rawhide string, broken, carved wood drill, metal bit, rawhi
Classification
  • Drill
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Greenland Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Greenland
Additional Geographic Terms Arctic highlands
Materials Bone , Bearded Seal skin , Wood , Metal
Dimensions Overall: 46 x 2.3 x 2 cm (18 1/8 x 7/8 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 49700
Provenance
Provenance Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary (1892)

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