Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Henry Booth (1849-1929, a mining engineer in Poughkeepsie, New York); purchased by George Heye from Henry Booth in 1905.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Kalaallit [Greenland]
- Seller
- Henry Booth, Non-Indian, 1849-1929
- Previous owner
- Henry Booth, Non-Indian, 1849-1929
- Object Name
- Bow drill
- Media/Materials
- Animal Bone, hide
- Techniques
- Perforated
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
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