Asset number
19523001
Description
Scan of drawing by James Farrant of engraved drill bow made of walrus ivory, rectangular cross section, slightly curved, pierced at either end, for the skin cord, either missing or partially present with fragmentary cord registered with next item. Engraved on all four sides with scenes: a] left to right of individual caribou, a person, and then two groups of massed caribou on either side of a hunter with bow and arrow; b] uncertain scenes: two people in a tent or house playoing a game [?], and six human or other figures dancing, and an unfinished mammal; upside, starting from the other end, is a goose; c] lines outside hung with skins drying, final lines with fish [?] drying, conical and domed structures and people; lines with fish or strips of meat [?] drying; an umiak [?] on its side; two people; a domed tent with a fire and smoke coming out; a triangular structure with a pail over a fire, the smoke depicted [?]; five human or other figures dancing; d] a mammal, and two people lying in a domed structure.
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