Pot-Handle For Water Kantag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. XLIII-14; P. 104 ALSO IN USNM REPT, 1895; PL. 80, FIG. 3; P. 936." FROM CARD: "HANDLE FOR WATER PAIL.---MADE OF WALRUS IVORY, INTO WHICH SIX FINGER HOLES ARE SO CARVED AS TO GIVE THE HANDLE THE APPEARANCE OF SEVEN FISH [bowhead whale] TAILS IN A CONNECTED ROW. LENGTH, 6 1/2 INCHES; WIDTH, 1 1/4 INCHES. ESKIMO OF CAPE DARBY, ALASKA. 48,137. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 38 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Nov 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cape Darby, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E48137-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag Handle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 16.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 3.17 cm