Arrowshaft straightener or smoother
Used for gripping an arrow or dart shaft in order to apply bending force, or as a gauge for measuring the diameter of an arrow. Collected 1826-7 by Peard on the voyage of HMS Blossom.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 51/1916/69
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- walrus ivory
- Common Name
- arrowshaft straightener or smoother
- Simple Name
- arrowshaft straightener
- Production County
- Bering Strait / Northwest Alaska
