Bolas
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jan 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Bone Implements for gambling?"
label: Notes
content: Throwing weapon for birds: ducks and geese. Bolas were also sometimes used for sport. See remarks for E63258 for more information.
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/207 , retrieved 1-28-2020: Bolas with eight weights made from antler and braided sinew cords. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/68: The bolas is a throwing implement made of several interconnected and weighted cords. It is used by twirling the weighted cords, and then casting them at low-flying birds, entangling the birds in the cords.
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: 69A00012
label: USNM Number
content: E7444-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bola