Implement For Clearing Loose Ice From Fishing Holes
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "33022-4. ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. LXII-9; P. 162 #36024."FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL.65, FIG. 9; P. 175." FROM CONDITION REPORT, AFTER REMOVAL FROM EXHIBIT HALL 9 (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "WOODEN HANDLE FITTED W/ BOWL FRAME FROM CARVED BONE, RIM TAPERED TO A POINT, LASHED W/ RAWHIDE MESH BOTTOM. ATTACHED TO HANDLE W/ TWISTED SINEW. HANDLE DECORATED W/ RED PAINT."
label: Notes
content: Described p. 115 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Large Ice-dipper. Handle wood, partially painted brick-dust red; dipper made of bone, steamed and bent into almost a perfect circle (3 3/8 inches by 3 7/8 inches at bottom, 1 inch deep), with a lip. The bottom is interlaced with seal-skin thongs, forming a strainer. The dipper is lashed to the pole with seal sinew. New. Length, 38 inches. Alaska. E. W. Nelson. Used by natives when seal hunting for removing loose ice from seal holes."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36024-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ice Scoop
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 98 cm
label: Width - Bowl
content: 10.5 cm