Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1916 by John Edward Freeman Wight (1887-1959, a constable with the North-West Mounted Police); given or transferred by John Wight to his brother Corporal Robert Stanley Stuart Wight (1888-1929, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police); purchased by MAI from an unknown source in 1923.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Copper Inuit
- Collector
- John Edward Freeman Wight (J.E.F. Wight), Non-Indian, 1887-1959
- Previous owner
- John Edward Freeman Wight (J.E.F. Wight), Non-Indian, 1887-1959
- Corporal Robert Wight (Robert Stanley Stuart Wight), Non-Indian, 1888-1929
- Object Name
- Thimble
- Media/Materials
- Horn
- Techniques
- Carved
- Object Type
- Sewing Tools and Equipment
