Mallet For Hammering And Pounding
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: 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=596 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Mallet. The Chukchi used massive stone mallets to crush animal bones so that the fatty marrow inside could be taken out for eating, or used as fuel for household lamps. These bone-breakers had many other uses, from softening hard-dried fish to pounding meat into cutlets and preparing roots for cooking.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cape Wankarem (Cape Vankarem), Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, Siberian (?)
label: Culture
content: Chukchi (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E63679-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hammer
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 16 cm