Grass Scythe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Out of use." Curved steel blade. Roll of birch bark for a tip sheath. Wooden handle."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Sickle. Grass scythe. Khotur. 19th century, first half. Metal, wood, birch bark, hide, horsehair. Forging, embossing, carving, wrapping. L.: 127. An ancient type of a Sakha scythe. A birch bark case is covering the curved tip of the blade. A short horsehair rope is put on the blade. The handle is wooden and is wrapped in black leather at the shaft. The tip of the handle has a curve to make it easier to grip it with hand. The metal is rusted and corroded.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352218-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scythe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 127 cm