Throwing Board
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1863
label: Collection Date
content: 1853 to 1856
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. U S N John Rodgers
label: Collector
content: United States North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN NAT. MUS. REPT. 1884, PL. VI-8, P. 290." Note: card for E2535, a quiver or case, indicates it is the container for E2528 - E2534. See remarks for E2528. Illus. Fig. 160, p. 164 in Crowell, Aron, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar. 2001. Looking both ways: heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=13, retrieved 8-29-2012: Throwing board, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq). nukaq "throwing board" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Kodiak Island dialect) A throwing board extended a hunter's arm, adding extra leverage as he hurled hunting darts through the air toward seals, birds, and sea otters. The grip was custom-carved to fit his palm and fingers. Before it was thrown the dart rested in the groove on the front side of the board; when it was launched the back end of the dart pivoted on the ivory pin. A design carved on the back of the throwing board shows the hind feet and tail of a sea otter.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Islands (not certain) / Prince William Sound (not certain) / Alaska Peninsula (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000321
label: USNM Number
content: E2533-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Atlatl