Arrow And Spear Straightener
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. XL-4; P. 99. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL. 53, P. 38. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 53, p. 38 in Rowley, Susan D. M., William W. Fitzhugh, and Susan A. Kaplan. 1988. Inua: spirit world of the Bering Sea Eskimo. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History. Identified there: "Arrow straightener. Hunters straightened their arrows by inserting the shaft in the hole of a wrench-like tool and bending. The use of a caribou (the intended prey) motif imparted spiritual force to the arrow. Here the entire caribou is represented by its head and one hoof."
label: Notes
content: 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. p 61. Identified there as made from a walrus jawbone with one eye inlaid with a Russian blue glass trade bead; carved in form of a caribou head and hoof.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cape Nome, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 80A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E44415-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shaft Wrench
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19.7 cm