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Drill bow handle
Native American, Inupiaq
1825–75
Object Place: Probably Bering Strait between Norton and Kotzeb, Arctic, Canada
Medium/Technique
Walrus ivory and pigment
Dimensions
62.23 x 1.9 x 1.27 cm (24 1/2 x 3/4 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Independence Investment Associates, Inc.
Accession Number1993.3
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsTools and equipment
DescriptionLong, narrow and slightly curved with black line-drawings depicting people and mountains on the left and sailing vessels with birds and people on the right. The reverse has drawings of four caribou and fragments of collection labels.
ProvenanceBy 1992, Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, MA; 1993, sold by Hurst Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 27, 1993)