Bow/sinew tightener
name: label: Culture/People
content: probably Copper Inuit (attributed)
label: Presenter/funding source
content: Thea Heye (Thea Kowne/Mrs. Dorothea Page/Mrs. George Gustav Heye), Non-Indian, 1888-1935
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collection history unknown; purchased by MAI from an unknown source in 1919 using funds donated by Thea (Mrs. George) Heye.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Banks Island; Inuvialuit Settlement Region; Northwest Territories; Canada
label: Archipelago
content: Canadian Arctic Archipelago
label: Island Name
content: Banks Island
label: Island Grouping
content: South Canadian Arctic Islands
setName: label: See related items
content: Copper Inuit
label: See related items
content: Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 9/2617
label: Barcode
content: 092617.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hunting/Fishing/Warfare
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Bow/sinew tightener
label: Media/Materials
content: Animal Bone
label: Techniques
content: Perforated, carved