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Drill bow with incised designs
Drill bow with incised designs
Object Number 88-51-10/50809
Display Title Drill bow with incised designs
Descriptions
Object Description Drill bow with incised designs
Inventory Description Drill bow, carved ivory with incised and pigmented decoration, leather string
Classification
  • Woodworking
Department Ethnographic
Date 1800-1888
Culture
  • Unaliqmiut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / <County> / St. Michael
Additional Geographic Terms Norton Sound
Materials Ivory, Leather
Dimensions Overall: 34.1 x 1.6 x 1.6 cm (13 7/16 x 5/8 x 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 88-51-10/50809
Provenance
Collector Lucien M. Turner
Exchange participant Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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