Drum Handle
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: "FOUND IN THE COLLECTION DEC. 1977-L.L.L. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 5, ARCTIC, FIG. 13, PG. 332. IVORY; UPTURNED FACE W/ INSET IVORY TUSKS CARVED AT DISTAL END, PERHAPS REPRESENTING A WALRUS MAN.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 73 p. 71 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there: "Inupiaq ivory drum handle with walrus-man spirit ... The face looks inside the drum, the drum frame resting on and being lashed to the "neck.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E56515-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drum Handle