Awl

Museum number:
2-3961
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020003961
Alternate number:
x-107 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Made of sea mammal bone.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Awls
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
of the type used by the Aleuts. during the mammalian period." "Lydia Black wants to know the following: 'Is it an awl like for puncturing or is it a long pin? If the latter, and if one end is decorated and has a groove (to suspend bead strings or other decorations) it is likely a nosepin.'" DUPLICATE CARDS filed in both Archeology (Aleutian Islands) and in Ethnography files. Allison A. Young viewed the object and determined that it is a bone awl- possible sea mammal bone
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 2-3961, described as Made of sea mammal bone.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 2-3961, described as Made of sea mammal bone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 2-3961, described as Made of sea mammal bone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 2-3961, described as Made of sea mammal bone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 2-3961, described as Made of sea mammal bone.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Awl, accession number 2-3961, described as Made of sea mammal bone.

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