Young Walrus Teeth (3)
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: Illus. p. 255 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: "Three juvenile walrus tusks. In Turner's manuscript (1887a: 120), he describes these walrus tusks as being "trophies, and also serve as material from which to fashion small articles". In his description of the tusks, he states: "Various portions of the teeth of the marine and terrestrial mammals are used to form many articles which, in the absence of metals, wood and stone have either too great brittleness or else soft and easily worn to withstand the pressure or shock to which the object subjected. The great size of the walrus tusk enables the Innuit to fashion innumerable objects from it while for smaller affairs the teeth of other mammals are equally suitable. In the absence of metal with which to shape the ivory sharp edged stones cut into shape and rough grained stones rub it to the required thickness.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: E90229-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tooth