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Description: | Ivory model of an awl, creaser, or marlin spike used in working skins for clothes and boots or sinews for bows. It is part of a collection of ethnographic material made by Admiral Sir George Back (1796-1878).
The item would have been made for sale to Europeans and Back met Inuit anxious to trade ivory carvings in Hudson Strait on 12 August 1819 and 5 August 1836 (there was a tradition of ivory carving established on Baffin Island).
Advice on provence from J C H King of the British Museum. Bequeathed to Greenwich Hospital in 1900 by Mrs Eliza Back, widow of Sir George Back's nephew, the Rev Henry Back. See PRO ADM169-267.
caption: Model of three snow knives, a comb and awl | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | awls George Back | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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