Boot Creaser
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. XLIV-42; P. 106 "AN ELABORATE BOOT CREASER...TO THE UPPER END OF WHICH, ATTACHED BY A LINK, IS A CARVING REPRESENTING THE HEAD OF A WHITE BEAR. THE BODY OF THE IMPLEMENT IS SINUOUS NEARLY TO THE END WHERE IT IS FLATTENED TO A WEDGE SHAPE." IBID. P.108. INVENTORIED 1981."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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 https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=597 , retrieved 12-28-2021; see web page for additional information: Boot creaser, Inupiaq. This walrus ivory tool was used for creasing neat pleats into the toes and heels of skin boot soles, although some women used their teeth alone for this task. The tool is decorated with a carved polar bear head.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Point Hope, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E63806-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Boot Creaser
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20.3 cm