Splint Cutter
37-23-19
Location: On Display in the Native American Voices
From: United States of America | Maine | Oldtown
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 37-23-19 |
| Current Location | Native American Voices - On Display |
| Culture | Penobscot |
| Provenience | United States of America | Maine | Oldtown |
| Culture Area | Northeast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Metal |
| Description | Wooden, carved with puma head on proximal end two cones on dorsal aspect making finger sockets; on both faces and edges, incised designs of cross hatching and excised triangles and inlay of darker wood in bars, triangles and leaf sprays. Six steel teeth made from watch springs [one lost]; brass band screwed on distal end. |
| Length | 14.6 cm |
| Width | 4.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Samuel W. Fernberger, 1937 |
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