Piece of bone or antler, one end perforated, the other tapering, with two holes in the side, one with remains of a hide thong. [El.B 15/06/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Piece of bone or antler, one end perforated, the other tapering, with two holes in the side, one with remains of a hide thong. [El.B 15/06/2012]
Geographical reference: United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America; Western USA Alaska North Slope Borough Point Franklin
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: ?On or before 1826
Acquisition information: Transferred: 11/03/1886
Materials and processes: Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Animal Bone, Material Animal Antler, Process Carved, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 302 mm, Width: max 22 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.761 Other numbers: 371 - 378
Research and responses: 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]

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