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Drill with flint point
Object Number 88-51-10/50345
Display Title Drill with flint point
Descriptions
Object Description Drill with flint point
Inventory Description Drill, chipped stone point hafted to wood shaft with braided sinew
Classification
  • Drill
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Navugmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms Point Barrow
Materials Wood, Stone, Sinew
Dimensions Overall: 32 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm (12 5/8 x 7/8 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50345, 89626, -P. H. Ray, U.S.A. / 870, Ooglaamie Alaska Nov. 18th 1889
Provenance
Collector Lt. P. H. Ray (1882)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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