Pair Of Ivory Whale Flipper Toggles
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: "ILLUS. IN BAE 9TH AR, FIG. 250CD, P. 248. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 5, ARCTIC, FIG. 2H, PG. 322. PAIR OF CARVED IVORY WHALES USED ON A LINE PROBABLY TO TOGGLE THE DEAD WHALE'S FLIPPERS TOGETHER WHILE IT WAS TOWED TO ICE."
label: Notes
content: On exhibit in NMNH Sant Ocean Hall. 2014 exhibit caption identifies this as whale flipper toggles, Inupiaq.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Point Barrow, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013712
label: USNM Number
content: E56598-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Toggle