Wooden Implement For Throwing Dart
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; FIG. 43-11; P. 154. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL. 22, P.21, & PL.48, P.36. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." 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."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jun 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kushunuk (Qissunaq), Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, 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: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36018-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Atlatl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 47.7 cm