Awl
- Museum number:
- 2-4148
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004148
- Alternate number:
- x-294 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- (Bodkin), ivory, encircling zigzag bands, suspension hole at top.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Pastolik, Wade Hampton Borough, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Pastolik
- Culture or time period:
- Malemiut Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Awls
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Used to slip knots during construction of nets.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 12 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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