Baler
An Inuit dipper or baler of fossil mammoth ivory.
This baler is discussed by William Buckland who wrote an appendix to Frederick Beechey’s book about the HMS Blossom voyage: ‘The ivory scoop purchased by Capt. Beechey from the Eskimo, and made of a portion of a very large fossil tusk; it shows at the extremities of the excavated part at A and B a point that indicates the axis of the tusk; this ivory is firm and solid, and in nearly the same high state of preservation as the entire tusks from Escholtz Bay.’
Acquired during the voyage of the HMS Blossom under Captain Beechey, 1825-8
This baler is discussed by William Buckland who wrote an appendix to Frederick Beechey’s book about the HMS Blossom voyage: ‘The ivory scoop purchased by Capt. Beechey from the Eskimo, and made of a portion of a very large fossil tusk; it shows at the extremities of the excavated part at A and B a point that indicates the axis of the tusk; this ivory is firm and solid, and in nearly the same high state of preservation as the entire tusks from Escholtz Bay.’
Acquired during the voyage of the HMS Blossom under Captain Beechey, 1825-8
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 51/1916/49
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Transport
- Collection Area Region
- North America
- Material
- fossil mammoth ivory | | | |
- Common Name
- baler
- Simple Name
- baler
- Production Town
- Production County
- Bering Strait / Northwest Alaska
- Production Country
- United States of America
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- 1826
- Production Year High
- 1827
