Mouthpiece
Used for inflating seal carcasses to use as buoys to float killed whales. Made of two pieces joined together with a rotating joint. Collected 1826-7 by Peard on the voyage of HMS Blossom.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 51/1916/106
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- walrus ivorybone
- Common Name
- mouthpiece
- Simple Name
- mouthpiece
- Production County
- Bering Strait / Northwest Alaska
