Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head Item Number: 86.224.168 from the Brooklyn Museum
Description
Drag handle of a looped leather cord which laces through the underside of a bear's head. Y-shaped, incised mouth; inlaid, circular nostrils, eyes inlaid with metal; lightly sculptured ears; two concentric incised lines around neck with three pairs of short perpindicular lines. The neck is notched on one side. CONDITION: Stained in stripe on bottom. Long crack on each side of proper right eye. Shorter cracks around proper left eye. Leather stiff and dry.
Credit Line
Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
Item History
- Made between 1800 and 1899
What
- Name
- Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head
- Identification Number
- 86.224.168
- Type of Item
- drag handle, shaped, bear and head
- Material
- ivory, iron metal and hide
- Measurements
- “3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm)” ?
Who
- Culture
- Eskimo
Where
- Holding Institution
- Brooklyn Museum
When
- Creation Date
- between 1800 and 1899
Other
- Location
- Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
- Classification
- Hunting/Fishing/Trapping