Ivory Cord Attachment
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.359, P.263. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." Crossroads of Continents catalogue identifies as a Bering Sea Eskimo line fastener decorated with a smiling face (with corner labrets), indicating it is a man.
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=554 , retrieved 10-26-2021; see web page for additional information: Line Attacher, Yup'ik. Small carved blocks of ivory were used to fasten one length of sea mammal hunting line to another without making a knot. Using this method, lines with loops on their ends - for example, the leather cords attached to harpoons and sealskin buoys - could be quickly joined and just as easily separated. One loop passed through holes in the block while the other slipped around its grooved contours. This line attacher was carved from a walrus or beluga tooth, in the shape of man's face. Dots representing labrets appear below his mouth.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kushunuk (Qissunaq), Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E37063-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Line Attacher
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 1.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 1.8 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 2 cm