Sinew twister
- Museum number:
- 2-9213
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020009213
- Accession number:
- Acc.333
- Description:
- Sinew twister/cord spinner of ivory.
- Donor:
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University)
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Grace Nicholson
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Accession date:
- 1908
- Context of use:
- To make sinew thread for sewing clothing or other small articles.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Loans:
- S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
- Legacy documentation:
-