Drill

Northwest Coast, Native American

  • Titles Drill (Descriptive)
  • Dimensions 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Museum purchase, 1956.48.173c
  • Work Type drill
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Black and white photograph with twelve Native American people outdoors, wearing regalia and face coverings, each with one fist raised.
The engraving is so worn as to be about gone. Perhaps a single heart design.
Chief's Blanket (First Phase style), Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region, Native American, wool with cochineal and vegetal dyes
The blade is a piece of a file 5.25 inches long, curved edge 1.938" wide. This is attached to a handle of alder? cut from a tree about 1.5" diameter with a limb .75 inches in diameter. 11.5b. which serves as a handle. The blade was wrapped in blue and white gingham and lashed with Niblick. Fig 94. cotton fish cord.