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Drill guide ?
Object Number 21-14-10/97881
Display Title Drill guide ?
Descriptions
Inventory Description Leader, carved ivory shaft, thin/long, grooved and perforated baleen tip, broken
Classification
  • Fishing and trapping
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Copper Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Nunavut
Additional Geographic Terms Coppermine River and King Williams Island, between
Materials Ivory, Baleen
Dimensions Overall: 25.5 x 0.6 x 0.4 cm (10 1/16 x 1/4 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 97881
Provenance
Collector Alfred H. Anderson (1920-1921)
Donor Alfred H. Anderson (1921)

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