File:Bone Awl (FOUS 24755) (7c87ab62-1dd8-b71b-0b68-61a3a2ba10e1).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(1,200 × 867 pixels, file size: 253 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents


Summary

[edit]
English: Bone Awl (FOUS 24755)
Photographer
English: NPS photo
Title
English: Bone Awl (FOUS 24755)
Publisher
English: U.S. National Park Service
Description
English:

Bone awl.

This awl made from either mule or white-tailed deer bone would have been used to punch holes into different hides. American Indian women would then sew hides together with dried sinew, or tendon, the tissue that connects muscles to bone.

  • Keywords: fort; union; trading; post; national; historic; site; artifacts; trade; plains; indians; american; artifact
Depicted place
English: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Date Taken on 13 January 2017
Accession number
Source
English: NPGallery
Permission
(Reusing this file)
Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
NPS Unit Code
InfoField
FOUS
Album(s)
InfoField
English: Artifacts of Fort Union

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current08:49, 13 May 2024Thumbnail for version as of 08:49, 13 May 20241,200 × 867 (253 KB)BMacZeroBot (talk | contribs)Batch upload (Commons:Batch uploading/NPGallery)

Metadata