Doll With Movable Head
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; FIG. 130; P. 344."
label: Notes
content: Drawing of object is Illustrated in Fitzhugh, William W., Julie Hollowell, and Aron L. Crowell. 2009. Gifts from the Ancient Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, CT, Fig. 13, p 237. Identified there: mechanical doll, wood. "E. W. Nelson obtained this wooden mechanical doll at Point Hope on the Bering Strait coast. Its head is attached to the torso by a smooth round pin that sits in a socket hole at the neck. The end of the pin was grooved to hold a cord that, when pulled, enabled the doll's head to turn side to side."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E63814-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll