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Ivory model of an awl, creaser, or marlin spike used in working skins for clothes and boots or sinews for bows.
Ivory model of an awl, creaser, or marlin spike used in working skins for clothes and boots or sinews for bows. It is part of a collection of ethnographic material made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878).
The item would have been made for sale to Europeans and Back met Inuit anxious to trade ivory carvings in Hudson Strait on 12 August 1819 and 5 August 1836 (there was a tradition of ivory carving established on Baffin Island).
The item would have been made for sale to Europeans and Back met Inuit anxious to trade ivory carvings in Hudson Strait on 12 August 1819 and 5 August 1836 (there was a tradition of ivory carving established on Baffin Island).
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Object Details
| ID: | AAA2622 |
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| Collection: | World Cultures |
| Type: | Model |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Unknown |
| Date made: | 1819-1837; 1819-37 |
| Exhibition: | The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire; Trade and Commerce |
| People: | Back, George |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 5 x 75 x 5 mm |