Name/Title
Eskimo Ivory Pick Axes, Tools, Spear Heads, etc., Harry George Collection Photo, 1910Entry/Object ID
143/347Description
Eskimo Ivory Pick Axes, Tools, Spear Heads, etc., Harry George Collection Photo, 1910. sepia. Photo of seven crude tools, lashed to handles. Described below.
Handwritten on back:
"Correspondence, Vol. 1, pg. 76G 79D, W. H. Case
Photo 4-n
3, 4, b, 8 selected
1. and 8 are old ivory pick axes, old tools showing much hard usage.
2, 6, 7, ivory spear heads, with good metal points, rawhide thong to be attached to spear. This class of spear head was attached to end of spear head, by setting in a socket. When they were driven into walrus or other game, the spear head slipped from the shank and as the animal pulled on the string, spear head would turn inside of hide, thereby being fastened in such manner as to make it impossible for animal to get loose.
3. Screw driver with ivory handle
4. Old snuff box, Ingeniously made, very rare and old.
5. Tom cod fishline, of very fine strips of whale bone; ivory sinker attached (5294)".Collection
Harry L. George Collection, PHOTOGRAPHSLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Tools, IvorySearch Terms
Native American, Alaska Tribes, Eskimo, Spear Heads, George CollectionDimensions
Dimension Notes
Printsize: 6½" x 4¼"