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1886.1.774

Ivory ?tool. With incised lines running longitudinally on both sides with a perforated hole. [SB [OPS Move] 28/6/2017]

1886.1.774

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ivory ?tool. With incised lines running longitudinally on both sides with a perforated hole. [SB [OPS Move] 28/6/2017]
Cultural groups
Inuit (Greenland)
Inuit
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 Ivory Tooth, Material Walrus Ivory Tooth Animal, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Perforated, Process Drilled
Dimensions
Length: max 174 mm, Depth: max 7 mm, Width: max 12 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.774
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]

Search terms: Tool, Unidentified Object, Marlinspike

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