Throwing-Stick For Spears
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LOANED TO ALASKA STATE MUSEUM 3-31-83. LOAN RETURNED 09 23 87. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL. 20, P.20. AND PL. 22, P. 21. USIA Inua catalogue identifies: "Throwing board. The length of a throwing board was critical to its use. Each board was made by a hunter for his own use, with measurements taken from his body. A seal throwing board was the length from the elbow to the tip of the forefinger; a beluga throwing board was slightly longer. [E44391] ... has a blue bead inlaid and a raven life line incised, both of which were believed to give it additional power. The notches on the handle are thought to represent the number of belugas caught: in this case four."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cape Nome, 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: 80A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E44391-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Atlatl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 44.5 cm