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Object Number 14-27-10/85880
Display Title Bone drinking tubes
Descriptions
Inventory Description Drinking tubes, bone, tubular, 2 notched and perforated
Classification
  • Drinking tube
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Nishga
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 19.5 x 1.6 x 1.3 cm (7 11/16 x 5/8 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 4
Label on object 14-27-10/85880
Provenance
Collector Lt. George Thornton Emmons (?)
Donor Lt. George Thornton Emmons (1914)

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