Hide Line
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Walrus hide."
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/203 , retrieved 1-23-2020: The Smithsonian Institution catalogue card identifies this as a line made from walrus hide. Walrus were rare in the Anderson River area, and it is more likely to have been made from the hide of a bearded seal. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/40: Lines made from various types of animal skins were used on harpoons, for tying things together, and for a variety of other purposes. Lines up to several metres in length were made cutting a narrow strip in one continuous piece from a single hide. The skins were first scraped to remove the underlying flesh, and the hair was also removed.
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)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00090
label: USNM Number
content: E529-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Line