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Object Number
15-36-10/86384
Display Title
Pubescent's bone drinking tube and painted scratcher.
Descriptions
Object Description
Pubescent's bone drinking tube and painted scratcher.
Inventory Description
Two pieces, one part is a jaw bone wrapped in buckskin with teeth and beads; the other is a bone tube wrapped in leather.
Classification
- Ornament
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1915
Culture
- Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
British Columbia
Materials
Bone Buckskin Tooth Bead Deer
Dimensions
Overall: 18 x 1.5 x 1.2 cm (7 1/16 x 9/16 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
86384
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller
James A. Teit
(?)
Collector
James A. Teit
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