Whip Made Of Twisted Skin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Lucien M. Turner
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 348 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: "Dog whip. A dog whip made from sealskin that was collected by Turner at Ft. Chimo, probably in 1883. Turner described the challenges of using a whip: "In the hands of an unskilled person the lash is certain to wind about his neck in a manner calculated to disturb his thoughts, or to curb additional aspiration to become a dog-driver.""
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ungava Bay, Quebec, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015388
label: USNM Number
content: E74480-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dog Whip