bone needle

bone needle

bone needle

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Introduction

Needle made of animal bone, used for making nets.

Materials

Bone

Techniques or Format

Hole in middle

Original and Subsequent Uses

making nets

Dimensions: 13.8 × 0 × 0 cm
Current Location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON, Canada
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 911.3.54
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1911
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Independent Order of Foresters
Publication History

F. Barlow Cumberland, Catalogue and Notes of the Oronhyatekha Historical Collection (Toronto: Independent Order of Foresters, 1904),p 52, Indian Netting Needles, made of bone."

GKS Reference Number: 803
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, bone needle. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, 911.3.54. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip October 2014; GRASAC item id 803.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.6, -71.9

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