calcined

calcined

Small horn scoop. Wide and curved at bottom edge. Side walls curve in slightly over the interior of the scoop. Top comes to a point and has a small hole bored through it. Exterior is smooth and shiny, showing layers of grey, brown and tan, with flaking and brown accretions at bottom. Interior is rough and dark and shows the grain of the horn.

Horn thimble. Dark grey object is tubular in shape with a whole piercing centre. Thimble and hole are both wider at bottom and narrow toward top. Exterior is carved with three lines of round, shallow divots, regularly placed. A fine line has been carved around top and bottom edges. Top and bottom sides have been roughly sheared.

Model stone oil lamp. Lamp (part a) is triangular in shape, concave on top surface, with intersecting ridges on the base that come to a point at centre. Bone wick (part b) is wide and slightly curved, carved with a series of regularly spaced grooves at top. Wood posts attach it to holes along the lamp's long edge. The small stone pot (part c) is rectangular, with a twisted, rigid sinew rope tied though holes at each corner. Rope fits into ridges carved into one end of the bone pot holder (part d), which bends in the centre and sits in a hole on the lamp’s edge. Lamp rests on a triangular stone stand (part e) with a raised ring at centre. Three wooden posts (part f, g, h) support the lamp above the stand.

Whale vertebra figure resembling the head of an owl. Two transversal holes represent the eyes; relief nose and flat base. Organic residues in the base (possibly fibre). Unbroken.

Bird pendant, made of polished bone. Pointed beak is facing upwards, square and incised body with a small suspension hole at its back; triangular base. Orange-red and black pigment in grooves. Well preserved.

Tool with flattened sides, used for burnishing ceramics. One side is slightly raised and the other has a circular hole. Well preserved.

Spatula pommel, made of animal bone. Lizard sculpture with rhomboid eyes is holding hair of trophy head in its mouth, hands and feet. One suspension hole in lower feet, one between eyes; two horizontal and two vertical holes in base. Broken and repaired.