Rattle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jan 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "MADE OF THE WOODLAND CARIBOU, SOME STRINGS OF PTARMIGAN BEAKS. THE POINT OF THE DEW CLAWS HAVE BEEN CUT OFF TO FURNISH AN OPENING THROUGH WHICH A THONG OF HIDE HAS BEEN PASSED AND KNOTTED TO RETAIN THE DEW CLAW. THE EDGE OF END HAS BEEN NOTCHED, FORMING TEETH. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1896, FIG. 202, P. 563." The publication referenced above identifies this object as something that would have been tied to a person's belt, "notably on little boys", to make a rattling sound when the person moved.
label: Notes
content: This object is listed, but not described or analyzed, in 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/68 , retrieved 1-28-2020.
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: E7443-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Rattle