Ice Scoop
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Scoop for drawing out the ice plits (sic) from the ice-hole." Heavy wooden handle. Flat circular scoop crudely made of four strips of willow and twisted willow bark."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Ice scoop. Suur. 19th century, second half. Pine, willow. Dimensional, piercing carving.L.:159. A scoop for extracting large ice pieces from ice-holes during winter fishing season. An oval scoop with a lattice made of four wooden sticks is attached to a thick long pine shaft using willow ropes. The rim of the scoop is made from willow sticks.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352216-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ice Scoop
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 159 cm