Graver
National Museum of Natural History
E7460-0
Identified as a graver based on resemblance to other gravers in the MacFarlane collection. See Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), which has general information on gravers here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/27: Gravers with iron tips held in bone and antler shafts were used for engraving designs on ivory, bone antler and wood.
- Type of Item graver
- Culture Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk
- Received from Roderick R. MacFarlane
- Made in Northwest Territories
- Collected in Northwest Territories
- Acquisition Date on January 7, 1869
- Accession Number 69A00012