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[Salima Ikram]

Handle of something, but of course, the question is of what???

On 30 Jun 2010, at 15:32, S O'Connor 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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Salima Ikram
Professor of Egyptology
American University in Cairo
P. O. Box 74, Road 90, Tagammu 5
New Cairo 11825, EGYPT
salimaikram at gmail.com
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