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Object Number 99-11-10/52398
Display Title Mattock
Descriptions
Object Description Mattock
Inventory Description Pick, bone blade, grooved, lashed to perforated bone handle with leather cord
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sinrarmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Nome Census Area / Port Clarence
Materials Bone, Leather
Dimensions Overall: 50.9 x 34.6 x 6.3 cm (20 1/16 x 13 5/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 52938
Provenance
Collector Capt. Miner Bruce (?)
Donor Capt. Miner Bruce (1899)

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