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Object Number 05-7-10/65631
Display Title Bone perforator
Descriptions
Inventory Description Awl or perforator, bone worked to point
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tlingit?
  • Haida?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia / Graham Island / Skidegate
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 20.2 x 4.1 x 2.5 cm (7 15/16 x 1 5/8 x 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 65631
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1905)

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