Mouthpiece
A bow drill consists of a mouthpiece, a cylindrical drill shaft of wood, and a drill bow. Points attached to drill shafts were stone, later of iron and steel. This wooden mouthpiece has a small metal plate with an indentation for the shaft.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 80/1931/154
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Tools for farm and craft
- Collection Area Region
- N
- Material
- woodmetal
- Common Name
- mouthpiece
- Simple Name
- bow drill
- Production County
- Alaska
- Production Country
- United States of America
