EditorialA miner's pick-axe and shovel made of maple wood, from the prehistoric salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.
EditorialBasket (90 cm), maple scoop (51 cm), burnt-out pine torch (20 cm), fur cap with leather straps, pick-axe. Mining utensils from the saltmine at Hallstatt (10th-9th BCE).
EditorialPick-axe made with a walrus tusk, stone hatchet of Alaska, wooden instrument with claws used by the Chukchi people to hunt walrus, tomb of the Unalaskans, and baidar (boat), dress and bow used by natives on both continents at the Bering Straits.From Jo...
EditorialCOSTUME OF A NEW TRIBE OF ESQUIMAUX; DISCOVERED BY DR. RAE, ON VICTORIA LAND; AND ARCTIC IMPLEMENTS, FROM MR. BARROW'S COLLECTION, AT THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION; 1. Bowl. 2. Adze. 3. Fishhook. 4. Snow shovel. 5. Lamp. 6. Pipe. 7. Pick-axe.
EditorialCast brass pen-box, Western Iran, 1281. The interior of the lid has roundels containing the personifications of the planets; from right to left there is Saturn with his pick axe, Jupiter with a book, Mars with a sword and severed head, the Sun in the c...
EditorialPick-axe made with a walrus tusk, stone hatchet of Alaska, wooden instrument with claws used by the Chukchi people to hunt walrus, tomb of the Unalaskans, and baidar (boat), dress and bow used by natives on both continents at the Bering Straits.From Jo...
EditorialFrench destroy Genoa. Chroniques de France ou de St. Denis. End of 14th century. (Miniature) The French destroy Genoa; soldiers shown scaling the walls, firing crossbows and wielding a pick-axe. Image taken from Chroniques de France ou de St. Denis. ...
EditorialPick-axe made with a walrus tusk, stone hatchet of Alaska, wooden instrument with claws used by the Chukchi people to hunt walrus, tomb of the Unalaskans, and baidar (boat), dress and bow used by natives on both continents at the Bering Straits.From Jo...
EditorialCOSTUME OF A NEW TRIBE OF ESQUIMAUX; DISCOVERED BY DR. RAE, ON VICTORIA LAND; AND ARCTIC IMPLEMENTS, FROM MR. BARROW'S COLLECTION, AT THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION; 1. Bowl. 2. Adze. 3. Fishhook. 4. Snow shovel. 5. Lamp. 6. Pipe. 7. Pick-axe.
EditorialA miner's pick-axe and shovel made of maple wood, from the prehistoric salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. Mining was resumed in the 12th century.
EditorialCast brass pen-box, Western Iran, 1281. The interior of the lid has roundels containing the personifications of the planets; from right to left there is Saturn with his pick axe, Jupiter with a book, Mars with a sword and severed head, the Sun in the c...
EditorialBasket (90 cm), maple scoop (51 cm), burnt-out pine torch (20 cm), fur cap with leather straps, pick-axe. Mining utensils from the saltmine at Hallstatt (10th-9th BCE).