Kim-

A couple of questions:

Where are you in upstate N.Y.?

Could you send me a jpeg off-list? NYSED blocks Flickr.

Is it open at both ends, or only the threaded one?  There are a number of bone objects that have been excavated in downtown Albany, and I can run your item by the curators here. Needle cases and cricket boxes come to mind.  We might even have other examples of whatever it is.





Marty Pickands
New York State Museum

>>> Kim Christensen <[log in to unmask]> 7/10/2007 5:17 PM >>>
Hi Histarchers -
    I'm currently conducting excavations at a 19th century historic house site in upstate NY, and today we came across a carved bone object that has stumped us.  It's about 9 cm long, tubular, hollow, with two holes bored through it near one end, and threads cut on the interior of that same end.  I've posted two photos on Flickr:
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimc2005/772030306/in/pool-gagedig/ 
   
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimc2005/772030638/in/pool-gagedig/ 
   
  Any suggestions regarding identification would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!
   
  Cheers,
     Kim
   
  Kim Christensen
  Ph.D. Candidate
  University of California Berkeley
  Matilda Joslyn Gage House Project
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  http://iis.syr.edu/WP/gage/ 
   

       
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