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Canadian Inuit. <em>Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head</em>, 19th century. Ivory, iron, hide, 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.224.168_view2_bw.jpg)
Canadian Inuit. Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head, 19th century. Ivory, iron, hide, 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.224.168_view2_bw.jpg)
Canadian Inuit. <em>Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head</em>, 19th century. Ivory, iron, hide, 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.224.168_view2_bw.jpg)

Canadian Inuit. Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head, 19th century. Ivory, iron, hide, 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.224.168_view2_bw.jpg)

Canadian Inuit. <em>Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head</em>, 19th century. Ivory, iron, hide, 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.86.224.168.jpg)

Canadian Inuit. Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head, 19th century. Ivory, iron, hide, 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.86.224.168.jpg)

Canadian Inuit. <em>Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head</em>, 19th century. Ivory, iron, hide, 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.224.168_view1_bw.jpg)

Canadian Inuit. Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head, 19th century. Ivory, iron, hide, 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.224.168_view1_bw.jpg)

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Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head

Arts of the Americas

CULTURE Canadian Inuit
MEDIUM Ivory, iron, hide
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS
DATES 19th century
DIMENSIONS 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm)  (show scale)
COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas
ACCESSION NUMBER 86.224.168
CREDIT LINE Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Drag handle of a looped leather cord which laces through the underside of a bear's head. Y-shaped, incised mouth; inlaid, circular nostrils, eyes inlaid with metal; lightly sculptured ears; two concentric incised lines around neck with three pairs of short perpindicular lines. The neck is notched on one side. CONDITION: Stained in stripe on bottom. Long crack on each side of proper right eye. Shorter cracks around proper left eye. Leather stiff and dry.
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Canadian Inuit. Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head, 19th century. Ivory, iron, hide, 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.224.168_view2_bw.jpg)
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Canadian Inuit. <em>Drag Handle shaped like a bear's head</em>, 19th century. Ivory, iron, hide, 3 1/4 x 7 /8 x 13/16 in. or (8.3 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.224.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 86.224.168_view2_bw.jpg)

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