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Bone to drink water. Saami

Title:

Bone to drink water

Ethnic groups:

Saami

Territory:

Norway, Finnmark Oblast, village Kautokeino

Date:

second half of the 19th century

Collectors-person:
Sergel Sergei I.
Material:

Bone

Dimensions:

length 14.5

Number:

РЭМ 1390-70

Annotation:

The goose bone was used by nomadic reindeer herders in the spring to drink melt water, sucking it out of the melting snow.