Fish-Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "64217-8. #64218-ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT.1; PL. LII-23;P. 126. 64218: LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. 64218 ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.349, P.258. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993." FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT.1; PL. LII-23; P. 126. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. WOOD, IVORY/BONE." Crossroads catalogue caption identifies as: "Fish club, North Alaskan Eskimo. This club ... takes the form of a fish predator, the seal. Its ivory eyes are inlaid with dark wood plugs, and its whiskers and lashes are shown by finely incised lines and remnant stubs of fur. The scratch between the eyes indicates it is a masked spirit."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Jun 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Diomede Islands, Bering Strait, United States (not certain) / Russia (not certain), Asia / North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E64218-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club