Bone Flake Used In Cutting Hair
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 47, p. 198 in Turner, Lucien M., and Ray Hudson. 2008. An Aleutian ethnography. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. Identified there: "Bone used for cutting hair. This flat thin piece of bone was placed under strands of hair, which were then cut by pressing a sharp knife against it." See also text p. 198, where Turner notes that these types of objects may be termed cutting boards, and describes their use.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Attu Island, Attu Quad / Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010517
label: USNM Number
content: A64942-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Flake