Snow-Cane Or "Shug-Un"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1871
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: Note that 10276 is mentioned as being used in an exhibit in Berlin in 1880 on p. 56 of USNM Bulletin No. 18. It is described there as a bone snow probe, "Used by the Eskimos in probing the air-holes in ice and under the snow to detect the presence of seals."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 28 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Family Group of the Western Eskimo, Alaska".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: King Williams Land (King William Island), Nunavut, 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: 002157
label: USNM Number
content: E10276-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Snow Probe