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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 (Kotzebue Sound?)
Date: c.1820s

Collected by Captain Frederick William Beechey, 1826-27; purchased from Sotheby's, 1983

Registration number: AOA 1983, Am 27.1

More about this object type and the motifs shown:
Drill bows
Caribou
Umiaqs
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