Needle Holder

Reference : 5264

Bone, ivory, leather
Dimensions: Case length 13 cm, diameter approximately 2 cm
Historical period
Presumed date: late^19th or early^20thcentury^{Alaska, USA}

Provenance:
Private collection, Montreal

More details

This needle case is complete with its cap and protective leather cover, to which its awl is attached:

There is a similar but incomplete specimen collected at Kushunuk, a former abandoned Inuit village located in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska.
It measures 14.7 cm in length and is housed at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. (inv. 36626)

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