Awl Or Perforator, Snow Shoe Needle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Nov 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "IRON NEEDLE LASHED ONTO WOODEN HANDLE. INVENTORIED 1980."
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 http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=63, retrieved 8-24-2012: Awl, Koyukon Athabascan. The awl is an essential tool for traditional arts, used to perforate animal skins and birch bark and to drill holes in wood for lashing together sleds and webbing snowshoes. To sew a seam, a woman traditionally pierced both pieces of skin with an awl then laced sinew thread through the holes. This Koyukon awl is tipped with a sharpened iron nail, while older points were made of bone.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nulato, Yukon River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Koyukon (Denaakk'e)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 78A00080
label: USNM Number
content: E33054-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Awl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 15 cm