Bucket Handle
97-84-424
From: United States of America | Alaska | St. Lawrence Bay
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-84-424 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Eskimo |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | St. Lawrence Bay |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Bone | Pyrite | Copper |
| Iconography | Whale head |
| Description | Curved bone shaft ending in whale heads. Supports are bone pins passing through back of whales with lower end perforated and upper end carved as human heads with flat backs, eyes set with pyrite crystals, copper labret and row of holes around edge of head for ?bristle hair. |
| Height | 7.8 cm |
| Length | 24.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-84-424 - Old Museum Number | 11340 - ANSP Number |
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