Wrist guard
- Museum number:
- 2-48482
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020048482
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Mammoth ivory, straight sides, V-shaped ends, incised zigzags, one slit at each straight side.
- 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
- Materials:
- Mammoth ivory
- Taxon:
- Mammuthus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- To prevent the bowstring from striking the left wrist.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 6.9 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-