Bow Drill, Etched
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 88. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." See p. 188 in Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo, Fitzhugh and Kaplan, 1982. One section of this drill bow is illustrated there (a detail from BW Neg. # 83-10985) and identified as showing engraving of a flying shaman. Note: Negative #2004-20486 is a 4 x 5 color transparency detail shot of scene engraved on drill bow showing 8 masked dancers and musicians. Both these scenes are also visible in color digital negative number 2008-5203.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Oct 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, United States, 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: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E48522-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drill