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Awl And Cord (USA)
This is a Awl and cord.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from National Museum of the American Indian as part of Tools: Extending Our Reach.
Women used awls to make the holes in gut or skin through which they would then thread sinew, animal hide or other fibers to stitch the pieces of material together. Awls came in a variety of sizes, suitable to the different thicknesses of the materials to be sewn. These small, shapely ivory points would have been used to perforate thinner skins or gut.
It is credited National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 4/8457.
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- Awls (USA)
- carved ivory.
- National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 3/6271.
- 17.2012.5
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- carved, incised, painted wood; incised tundra swan wing bone (humerus).
- National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 21/800.
- 17.2012.3
Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.
- Etui With Writing And Grooming Instruments (England)
- enamel on copper, gilt copper, steel, ivory, cut wood.
- Bequest of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
- 1931-6-105-a/h
- Spindle (Peru)
- painted wood shaft; incised and painted ceramic whorl.
- 1920-1-5
Its dimensions are
L (awl): 13.2 cm (5 3/16 in.) L (cord overall): 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Tools: Extending Our Reach.
