Dog Whip
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Bone knob at handle end. At upper end is a ferrule made from a tooth (bear?), lashed on with sinew cord."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Dog whip. Yt kymnyta. 19th century. Wood, bone, sinew, bear tooth. Dimensional carving, polishing, twisting, fixing. L.: 131. A polished stick with a round knob carved from mammoth tusk. The whip narrows at the end and a bear tooth is attached at its tip. The tooth is pierced at the base and a sinew rope is used to attach it to the whip. There are two small holes in the shaft of the whip, through which thin straps are put, providing additional support for the shape of the whip. Using a bear tooth makes the whip sacred as the Sakha were especially reverent towards bears, not daring to say their names aloud. In Sakha language the word ehe ('bear') means 'grandfather'.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352250-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dog Whip
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 131 cm