Ice Scoop
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL.45, P.34. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." Described p. 115 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Small Ice-dipper. Similar to 36024. Reticulated bottom, strips of baleen; handle wood, one-half inch in diameter. Old. Length, 21 1/2 inches. Diomede Island. E. W. Nelson."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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 https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=594 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Ice scoop. Siberian and Alaska Native fishermen make holes through ocean or river ice to angle for tomcod and other species. In cold weather the hole constantly freezes over with slushy ice. This scoop for removing the ice has a wooden handle, a rim made of bone, and mesh woven from whale baleen.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Diomede Islands, Bering Strait, United States (not certain) / Russia (not certain), Asia / North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E63605-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ice Scoop
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 56.4 cm