Iron Perforator, Bone Handle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jan 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Steel or iron point set in deer horn handle."
label: Notes
content: Illus. P. 223 in Turner, Lucien M., Scott A. Heyes, and K. M. Helgen. 2014. Mammals of Ungava & Labrador: the 1882-1884 fieldnotes of Lucien M. Turner together with Inuit and Innu knowledge. Identified there as an awl: "Turner reported that these awls were used for "making holes in the bark of the birch canoe where the spruce roots are used in stitching the top rail on the edge of the bark and for piercing holes in the snow-shoe frames for the insertion of the thongs used for netting" (Turner 1887b: 541)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ungava Bay, Quebec, Canada, 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: 013922
label: USNM Number
content: E89971-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Awl