String Figure
29-158-66
From: Canada | Repulse Bay
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 29-158-66 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Eskimo |
| Provenience | Canada | Repulse Bay |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | String |
| Iconography | Anticock |
| Description | Anticock whose spirit is about to leave the body to visit the Eskimo goddess to find out the cause of sickness among his people. He usually returns to say some woman has erred. If she confesses all recover. |
| Length | 9 cm |
| Width | 7 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of John Lyman Cox, in memory of George Comer, the collector, 1925 |
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