Fur And Bead Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jan 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Under lip of bear used for mole cases."
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 263 in Turner, Lucien M., Scott A. Heyes, and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Mammals of Ungava & Labrador: the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge. Identified there: "Bear onrament with beads. A beaded bear lip ornament used by the Innu, possibly as a charm, collected by Turner at Ft. Chimo. Turner recorded that the ornament originated from the Little Whale River. He apparently believed that the ornament was made from the skin of a brown bear (Ursus arctos), writing: "These mementos are procured with great difficulty from the hunter who has risked his life in the struggles attending the capture of these beasts, for the barren-ground bear of that region is nto a timid creature like the Black Bear; and unless the hunter is well prepared for the animal he would do well to let it alone" (Turner 1894: 275)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ugava Bay, Ungava Bay, Quebec, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Innu, Naskapi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013922
label: USNM Number
content: E90037-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Charm