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Object
- Accession Number
- OBJ_0025551
- Culture
- Inuit
- Materials and Techniques
- bone
- copper alloy
- Place
- Canada, North America, Americas
- Description
- Arrowhead with a copper blade set in a narrow bone handle with carved ridges.;This bone arrowhead with a copper blade is from the River Coppermine area in Canada. Copper outcrops and floats of copper are found in many parts of the Coronation Gulf area, and copper was used by the Inuit for making tools and weapons. The copper was cold-hammered into the required form, and was also traded to other areas.
- Description
- Arrowhead with a copper blade set in a narrow bone handle with carved ridges.;This bone arrowhead with a copper blade is from the River Coppermine area in Canada. Copper outcrops and floats of copper are found in many parts of the Coronation Gulf area, and copper was used by the Inuit for making tools and weapons. The copper was cold-hammered into the required form, and was also traded to other areas.
- See Elsewhere
- MDS record link
- Record Rights
- Horniman Museum and Gardens
- CC BY-SA
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