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Description

A toolkit used for making arrows. It consists of a cutting board made from wood with two small pouches attached to it with strips of hide. One pouch contains red ochre and the other contains wax or spruce gum. A small knife with an iron blade and wood handle has a broken hide thong at one end, and likely had also been attached to the cutting board.

  • Collection: Macfarlane Collection
  • Catalogue Number: E2241-0
  • Object Type: arrow toolkit
  • Materials: skin, hide, iron, wood, ochre, wax, spruce gum
  • Manufacturing Techniques: cutting, lashing
  • Tags: tool, hunting, land hunting

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