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Necklace

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Accession no.: Y: 72/18/10
Title: Necklace
Description: Necklace. Caribou Inuit. Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet), Nunavut, Canada. Collected 1915.
Object type: Necklace
Classified name:
Current cultural affiliation: Caribou Inuit
Former cultural affiliation: Caribou Eskimo
Current place name: Canada > Nunavut > Igluligaarjuk
Former place name: Canada > Northwest Territories > Chesterfield Inlet
Keyword(s): Grave goods
Field collection:
Person: grenfell
Place: Canada > Nunvaut > Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet)
Date: 1915
Number of items: 1
Full description:

Necklace: Made of 34 caribou and fox teeth (identification from register entries) strung on sinew (not original). Ends of sinew are threaded and tied through a hole at each end of rectangular piece of bone.
Related records:
  • SPRI Archives MS 1014/2/1-4 Basil Woodd-Walker Descriptions of artifacts
  • SPRI Archives MS 1014/1/1-6 Letters (6) to B. Woodd-Walker, 1902-16. Sir W.T. Grenfell
Dimensions: Image:
  • bone) Width: 71mm
  • Height: ?mm; length: 143mm; diameter: ?mm; depth: ?mm