Graver
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS LIST THIS CATALOG NUMBER ON "DISTRIBUTION LIST #6" IN 1867 WITHOUT ANY MENTION OF WHERE IT WAS SENT.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/38 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Graver with an iron blade set into a handle made from antler or bone. The blade has been sharpened along one edge and at the tip. The handle consists of two pieces of antler or bone with matching grooves at one end that hold the blade. Parts of the handle pieces near the blade have been cut away, leaving a slight step at that end. The two parts of the handle are held together with a hide thong wrapping. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/27: Gravers with iron tips held in bone and antler shafts were used for engraving designs on ivory, bone antler and wood.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anderson River, Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00090
label: USNM Number
content: E2297-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Graver