arrow-straightener
- Museum number
- Am1855,1220.223
- Description
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Arrow straightener made of bone.
- Dimensions
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Height: 16.20 centimetres
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Width: 4 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Discussed and illustrated in Hoffman, "The graphic art of the Eskimo", in the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895, p 877
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Kotzebue elders visit: one side shows King Island wolf-dance, dancers wearing eagle feathers.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1977 London, BM, Animals in Art
1984 13 Dec-1986 Jun, Museum of Mankind, Inuit / Eskimo: People of the North American Arctic, Case: "Technology and Raw Materials"
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1855,1220.223
