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Illustration of the drill bow
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Photograph of the drill bow    
Photograph of the drill bow    
The Iñupiat History of engraving Art of engraving
Drill bow
Place of origin: North Alaska (Port Clarence?)
Date: c.1840-53

Collected by Sidney J. Spark, c.1853-54; donated by John Barrow, 1855

Registration number: AOA 1855,11-26.227

More about this object type and the motifs shown:
Drill bows
Caribou
Walrus
Dwellings
Kayaks
Euro-Americans
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