Bow Drill
2003-43-253A
From: Siberia | Amur River
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 2003-43-253A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Orochi |
| Provenience | Siberia | Amur River |
| Culture Area | Siberia |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Iron | Fishskin | Plant Fiber |
| Technique | Carved | Lashed | Forged |
| Description | Bow drill crudely carved of wood; drill consists of a long stick split at the widen end; an iron bit is fitted into this split and lashed with vegetable fiber string; a flat rectangular platform is fitted on the stick 1/3 of the way up from the bit. |
| Length | 56 cm |
| Width | 15 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1899.1.253 - Other Number | 74-1-110 - Other Number | 38 (original inventory number) - Other Number |
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