Snow Cane For Probing The Snow
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1871
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: Note that 10275 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 56 of USNM Bulletin No. 18. It is described there as a bone snow probe, "Used by the Eskimos in probing the air-holes in ice and under the snow to detect the presence of seals."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: King Williams Land (King William Island), Nunavut, Canada, 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: 002157
label: USNM Number
content: E10275-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snow Probe