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Ivory needles, one round, one flat
tool
4 3/8 x 1/8 x 1/8 in. (11 cm)Inuit (aka Eskimo, Inuk) Primary
Object Type:
tool
Creation Places:
Medium and Support:
ivory
Credit Line:
Bequest of Miriam Look MacMillan
Accession Number:
1994.9.129.1&2
Inughuit women used bone or ivory needles for sewing before steel needles became available through trade in the ninteenth century. Such needles were fragile and women protected them with beautiful ivory needle cases.
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This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Northward Over the Great Ice The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum , 4/17/2008 - 9/5/2010
- At Home in the North , 5/30/2023 - 00/00/00
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