Small Gouge
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/88 , retrieved 12-30-2019: Gouge with a wood handle and an iron tip. The butt of the handle has been rounded for ease of use. Two incised lines encircle the handle. The tip has been made from a legth of iron that has been folded over and sharpened at one end. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/25: Gouges were used for boring holes into wood, antler, bone and ivory. Traditional Inuvialuit gouges had stone tips. Metal gouges obtained through trade or made from trade materials replaced stone gouges in the fur trade era.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00090
label: USNM Number
content: E2075-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Chisel