Thimble
- Museum number:
- 2-4166
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004166
- Alternate number:
- x-312 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Made of polished bone, has "fossil" ivory base. Turned on lathe. Copy of European metal thimble.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Materials:
- Ivory (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Thimbles
- Function:
- 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Use unknown; possibly part of walking care or end of a container.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- height 2.5 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
-