arrow-straightener

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Object Type: arrow-straightener
Museum number: Am1855,1220.240
Description: Arrow straightener made of bone.
Production ethnic group: Made by: Eskimo-Aleut
Production date: 1855 (before)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: North America
Materials: bone
Dimensions: Height: 4.75 centimetres; Width: 2.25 centimetres; Depth: 13.25 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Fagg 1972 / Eskimo Art in the British Museum (p.20); Ray 1977 / Eskimo Art: Tradition and Innovation in North Alaska (fig.27, p.96); Sloan 2003 / Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (227, p. 240)
Location: On display (G1/fc21)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1984 13 Dec-1986 Jun, Museum of Mankind, Inuit / Eskimo: People of the North American Arctic, Case: "Technology and Raw Materials" 2000-2001 6 Dec-11 Feb, London, BM Room 35; Human Image 2004 23 Feb-Present, BM Room 1, Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century
Acquisition name: Donated by: Haslar Hospital Museum; Donated by: Lords of Admiralty
Acquisition date: 1855
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am1855,1220.240

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