Root pick
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- Culture/People
- Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
- Previous owner
- M. C. Bruce, Non-Indian
- Seller
- M. C. Bruce, Non-Indian
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by George Heye circa 1905 from M.C. Bruce (possibly Miner Bruce [1850-1919], an Alaskan fur trader and artifact dealer).
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- Place
- Point Barrow; Arctic Slope Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Iñupiaq [Nuwukmiut/Point Barrow]
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 6524
- Barcode
- 006524.000
- Object Type
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- Object Name
- Root pick
- Media/Materials
- Antler, animal bone, hide
- Techniques
- Wrapped, carved, perforated
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_6151