Handle Item Number: 2019.O.006:590 from the Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
Description
composite metal drop-down handle. Comprised of a hollow main handle piece created by folding a flat piece of metal around to form a tube through which a flat piece of metal runs from end to end creating the attachments for whatever the handle was made for. The handle is wrapped with a smaller metal wire creating a woven design whose edges are tucked in between the edges of the folded metal, also has one metal bead. Likely for a decorative item. Dark brown/grey patina, possible a copper alloy
Provenance
no provenance- collected from Fraser Valley/ Vancouver Island/ Northwest coast
Item History
- Collected by Shirley Clark and William Patrick
What
Who
- Field Collector
- Shirley Clark and William Patrick
Where
- Holding Institution
- Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
Other
- Homeloc
- Sto:lo Material Culture Repository, 3:1:3, cardboard box
- Site
- n/a