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Please,<br>
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what is the context ? The age ? The length (6+ cm or 6+ inches) ?<br>
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Are the extremities pierced ?<br>
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I cannot enlarge nor clear up the image, wich is rather dark. <br>
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[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.<br>
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Your's.<br>
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S O'Connor a écrit :
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Alice,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All the best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sonia<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;">Dr Sonia O'Connor <span
style="font-size: 8pt;">PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow,
University
of York</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;">University of Bradford<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt;">Bradford, West
Yorkshire, BD7
1DP, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-US"> Sherry Doyal <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 29 June 2010 15:01<br>
<b>To:</b> Caroline Cartwright<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Clare Ward; Philip Kevin<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: Identification?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Any
guesses? S <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-US"> Ed Tennant [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:etennant2@comcast.net">mailto:etennant2@comcast.net</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 29 June 2010 14:57<br>
<b>To:</b> Sherry Doyal<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Identification?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Dear Colleague:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> 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.).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">My sincere thanks -- Ed
Tennant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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href="mailto:etennant2@comcast.net"
title="mailto:etennant2@comcast.net">etennant2@comcast.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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