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Object Number
15-36-10/86377
Display Title
Combination awl and scratcher and case or drinking tube
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Awl, worked bone inserted into long bone tube, cracked and broken, 1 perforation
Classification
- Tools
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1915
Culture
- Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
British Columbia
Materials
Bone
Dimensions
Overall: 17.1 x 0.9 x 0.7 cm (6 3/4 x 3/8 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
86377
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller
James A. Teit
(?)
Collector
James A. Teit
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