Weight
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "48384-5. USED ON LINE TO BE PASSED OVER THE FLUSHES OR BODY OF DEAD WHALE AND MADE FAST TO IT. #48384-ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT.1; FIG. 151; P. 439. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.211, P.168. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993."
label: Notes
content: Inupiat whale-shaped line weight of graphite, ca. 1875.
label: Notes
content: Weight, made from plumbago, also known as graphite, and carved in the image of a bowhead whale.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sledge Island, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E48384-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sinker