Pail / model

Model of a pail carved from walrus ivory, with details of rim picked out in blue pigment and handle of bent copper wire, part of a group with a model Inuit woman and walrus-shaped stand: North America, Canada, Baffin Island, Cape Dorset, Inuit, by Pitsulak, collected by John N.S. Buchan, 1938 - 1939

Pail

Pail, of cut and folded birch bark, stitched with blue and white quills, the rim reinforced by a bent stick lashed with split spruce roots and red, blue and white porcupine quills, has thong carrying strap, used for carrying water or berries: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Great Slave Lake, Fort Rae, Tłı̨chǫ, c. 1860