Dowel
Object Details
- Notes
- ONE WOODEN DOWEL, SHAFT TAPERS TO A POINT AT ONE END. ENDS APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN BITTEN OR CHEWED, MORE PROMINENTLY AT THE THICKER END. MULTIPLE TOOTHMARKS, WHICH APPEAR TO BE HUMAN, ON THE THICKER END. 6 CENTIMETERS FROM THE THICKEST END IS A ONE CM WIDE SHALLOW INDENTATION POSSIBLY CAUSED BY WEAR. CATALOG RECORDS DESCRIBE THIS AS A SKIN STRETCHING PEG. TINY REGULAR HOLE 1.6 MM DIAMETER PIERCES THE SHAFT IN THE MIDDLE.
- Record Last Modified
- 24 May 2023
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Eskimo, Inuit, Greenland Inuit
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Accession Date
- 3 Mar 1958
- Accession Number
- 242284
- USNM Number
- A399464A-0
- Collector
- James A. Ford
- Donor Name
- American Museum of Natural History
- Site Name
- Birnirk
- Object Type
- Dowel
- Maximum Length - Dowel
- 25.2 cm
- Maximum Thickness - Dowel
- 1.14 cm
- Weight - Dowel
- 9.2 g
- Place
- Barrow Quad, Alaska, United States, North America
- See more items in
- Anthropology
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8146273
- Usage
- CC0
