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Object Number 15-36-10/86370
Display Title Sewing awl
Descriptions
Object Description Fine sewing awl of bone (bird?). Upper end wrapped with Indian hemp.
Inventory Description Awl, carved bone, half wrapped in fiber cord.
Classification
  • Awl
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Dimensions Overall: 17 x 0.5 x 0.2 cm (6 11/16 x 3/16 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 86370
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (?)
Collector James A. Teit

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