Drill bow

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Description

walrus ivory, dark pigment, of a constant narrow, slightly curved form with raised middle ridge and pictographic engravings: featuring a hunter with three deers and four seals, accentuated by dark pigment, two drilled holes on one end, the other one missing, socle;
a drill bowl was part of an Eskimo carvers’s kit. It was used to work on ivory tusk, around 1850

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Comparing literature

Fitzhugh, William W., Gifts from the ancestors, London 2009, p. 255, ill. 3 D. J. Ray, Artists of the Tunda and the Sea, Seattle 1980

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