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[François Poplin]

Please,

what is the context ? The age ? The length (6+ cm or 6+ inches) ?

Are the extremities pierced ?

I cannot enlarge nor clear up the image, wich is rather dark.

[If it were recent,] it [would] make me remember of some handle of some 
tea or coffee pot, made of some synthectic material of pre-plastic time.

Your's.


S O'Connor a écrit :
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> Dear Alice,
>
> The following query and attached images came to me via Clare Ward at 
> the British Museum who has requested that I forward them to the 
> bonetools discussion list to see if anyone can help with the function 
> of this piece.  It is not clear to me what the materials is from these 
> photographs but what I can see is consistent with an ivory of some 
> species.  I am happy to pass thoughts back via Clare.
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> All the best,
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> Sonia
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> Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, 
> University of York
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> Post-doctoral Research Fellow
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> Archaeological Sciences
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> Division of AGES, 
>
> University of Bradford
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> Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
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> tel 01274 23 6498 (office) 5210 (lab)
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> fax 01274 23 5210
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> *From:* Sherry Doyal
> *Sent:* 29 June 2010 15:01
> *To:* Caroline Cartwright
> *Cc:* Clare Ward; Philip Kevin
> *Subject:* FW: Identification?
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> Any guesses? S
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> *From:* Ed Tennant [mailto:etennant2 at comcast.net]
> *Sent:* 29 June 2010 14:57
> *To:* Sherry Doyal
> *Subject:* Identification?
>
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> Dear Sherry -- I am a good friend of your cousin, Jim MacDiarmid. 
> Started working with him in Alaska in the mid 1970's. Still talk to 
> him a couple of times a week, brushing up on our German and exchanging 
> recipes. He suggested that I forward these photos and background 
> information about a fossilized piece of ivory that so far no one can 
> identify. Below is the info I sent to Vincent LaFonde at the Canadian 
> Museum of Civilisation. I think you will find the piece curious and if 
> I am lucky you will be able to say "Eureka!" -- My best regards, Ed 
> Tennant
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>  
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> Dear Colleague:
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>
>   Although I am now retired here in Albuquerque, I worked as a 
> language education consultant in rural Alaska for about 30 years. Over 
> a ten-year period I worked with the elementary school staff at Gambell 
> on St. Lawrence Island. During that time I picked up several pieces of 
> fossilized ivory artifacts. One is particularly intriguing and 
> somewhat mysterious, as, so far, no one can tell me what it is. The 
> first suggestion was that it was a guide for the hitch on a fan-shaped 
> dog team. The elders at Gambell tell me that that type of sled hitch 
> was never used on the island. Fan hitch specialists also say they have 
> never seen anything like that to guide traces. So, after twenty years 
> I am still trying to find out what this object may have been used for. 
> At the suggtestion of my Canadian friend Jim MacDiarmid (currently a 
> language consultant in Juneau, Alaska) I have included two photos: a 
> front view and a top view. The back is somewhat roughly hewn and is 
> not as polished as the front. Note the stick figure in the center 
> that  has the "eye of awareness" (ellam inga)  as its head. This may 
> suggest that the object may have been used in some religious ceremony. 
> The five equidistant 1-cm holes run completely through the piece from 
> top to bottom-- I would be most grateful if you could identify this 
> unusual, artifact that is from the Bering Sea Punuk culture (800-1200 
> C.E.).
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>  
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> My sincere thanks -- Ed Tennant
>
> etennant2 at comcast.net <mailto:etennant2 at comcast.net>
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