Scratching Claw, Seal Decoy
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Nov 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Lt P.H. Ray
label: Collector
content: John Murdoch
label: Collector
content: Middleton Smith
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Signal Service
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "#56555-10-3/4" LONG.... NOS. 56555-56557: ILLUS. IN BAE 9TH AR, FIG. 253A,B; P. 253."
label: Notes
content: Described p. 114-115 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Three-clawed Seal-scratoher. Handle and prongs wood, tipped with the claws of a seal; claws seized tightly with seal sinew, and lashed to an ivory peg, rigidly fastened in the palm. Length, 10 3/4 inches. Ooglaamie, 1882. Used by natives by scratching upon the ice or snow to attract the attention of seals. Lieutenant P. H. Ray, U. S. A."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Point Barrow, 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: 013712
label: USNM Number
content: E56555-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ice Scratcher