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Object Number
48-6-10/29200
Display Title
Thimbles made of caribou horn and bone
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Thimbles, carved bone and antler?, punctate, tapered, cylincrical, perforated
Classification
- Textileworking
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Copper Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
Canada
/
Northwest Territories
Additional Geographic Terms
Coronation Gulf
Materials
Bone, Antler
Dimensions
Overall: 1.7 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm (11/16 x 11/16 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
48-6-10/29200
Provenance
Provenance
James E. F. Wight
(1916)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-48-60/D2331 | Leather thimbles for sewing |
Textileworking
|
Siberia
| |
| 82-45-10/27615 | Brass thimbles on buckskin |
Ornament
|
United States
| |
| 40-69-10/22746 | Necklace--animal claws, beads, thimbles & fragments of hoof strung on thong |
Necklace
|
Michigan?
| |
| 48-6-10/29201 | Black thimble - made of musk ox horn? |
Textileworking
|
Northwest Territories
| |
| 69-30-10/1963 | Ivory thimble |
Textileworking
|
Alaska
| |
| 88-51-10/50017 | Ivory thimble |
Textileworking
|
Alaska
| |
| 28-52-30/F699 | Thimble |
Textileworking
|
Colombia
| |
| 29-26-10/98389 | Ivory thimble |
Textileworking
|
Alaska
| |
| 2003.1.2271 | Thimble |
Textileworking
| ||
| 23-29-10/98089 | Sewing thimble |
Textileworking
|
Greenland
| |
| 35-48-10/4488 | Spear pointhead made from caribou horn |
Point
|
Kotzebue
| |
| 13-52-10/88586 | Fragments of broken thimble guards |
Tools
|
North Slope Burough
|