Bow drill with perforations at each end, and little carving.

Collection type: Object
Description: Bow drill with perforations at each end, and little carving.
Long description: Bow drill with perforations at each end, and little carving. Probably unfinished, with sparse decoration. Two holes each end.
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Alaska Bering Strait Kotzebue Sound
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector Frederick William Beechey; Field collector HMS Blossom; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1826
Date collected: ?1826
Acquisition information: Transferred: 15/05/1950
Materials and processes: Material Walrus Ivory Tooth Animal, Process Perforated, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 396 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.696 Other numbers: 346 to 350
Research and responses: Ashmolean no 696. This object does not appear in the list of Beechey objects in Collectors Miscellaneous XI 71 - 75 [AP 20/7/99]
Please note that there was no further information about Beechey on the Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities. [L.Ph 23/3/2004]

Search terms: Tool, Fire, Bow Drill

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