Potstone Cooking Vessel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. William A. Mintzer
label: Donor Name
content: Lt. William A. Mintzer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "29969-70. ILLUS. IN USNM REPT, 1896; P1. 3; FIG. 5; P. 1042 (CAT. NO. 29969). OBLONG IN SHAPE, CUT OUT OF SOAPSTONE. IT IS PIERCED AT THE CORNERS FOR SUSPENSION. THE BOTTOM IS FLAT, THE SIDES INCLINE INWARD, THUS MAKING THE OPENING SMALLER AT THE TOP. THIS COOKING POT IN EVERY RESPECT RESEMBLES THOSE COLLECTED BY MR. L. M. TURNER IN LABRADOR. THIS SPECIMEN HAS BEEN BROKEN AND MENDED WITH CEMENT AND SINEW BY THE NATIVES."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 27 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Family Group of the Western Eskimo, Alaska".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005449
label: USNM Number
content: E29970-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot