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[S O'Connor]

I'll forward the query to them.

Thanks,

Sonia

Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University of
York
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Archaeological Sciences
Division of AGES,  
University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK

tel 01274 23 6498 (office) 5210 (lab)
fax 01274 23 5210


-----Original Message-----
From: bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu
[mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] On Behalf Of ch35 at cam.ac.uk
Sent: 30 June 2010 14:22
To: Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of
object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.
Subject: Re: [Bonetools] (no subject)

could they be parts of any kind of musical instrument? Try on Graeme 
Lawson? Catherine Hills

--On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 13:32 +0100 S O'Connor 
<S.Oconnor at Bradford.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
> Sonia
>
>
>
> Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University
> of York
>
> Post-doctoral Research Fellow
>
> Archaeological Sciences
>
> Division of AGES,
>
> University of Bradford
>
> Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
>
>
>
> tel 01274 23 6498 (office) 5210 (lab)
>
> fax 01274 23 5210
>
>
>
> From: Sherry Doyal
> Sent: 29 June 2010 15:01
> To: Caroline Cartwright
> Cc: Clare Ward; Philip Kevin
> Subject: FW: Identification?
>
>
>
> Any guesses? S
>
>
>
> From: Ed Tennant [mailto:etennant2 at comcast.net]
> Sent: 29 June 2010 14:57
> To: Sherry Doyal
> Subject: Identification?
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> Dear Colleague:
>
>
>
>   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.).
>
>
>
> My sincere thanks -- Ed Tennant
>
> etennant2 at comcast.net
>
>
>
> Y
>
>





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