Thimble
Gallery Location
Not on View
Maker
Euro-Canadian (Fur Trade)
Medium
Brass
Geography
Ontario, Winnipeg River, Boundary Falls
Date
ca. 1730 AD -1850 AD
Period
Colonial (1700 AD - 1850 AD)
Dimensions
1.9 x 1.9 cm
Object number
966.302.49
Collection
Department
Art & Culture: Archaeology of the Americas
Description
Divers recovered this brass thimble from the Winnipeg River. The current interpretation is that it sank to the bottom of the river during a canoe accident.
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