Awl
- Museum number:
- 2-4132
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004132
- Alternate number:
- Neumann #509 (original number, Second Orig. No.: Neumann #509.) and x-290 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Made of ivory, pendant bird head and link at top.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Akulemiut Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Materials:
- Ivory (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Awls
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Used to slip knots in manufacture & repair of nets.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 25 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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