Float
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jan 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/202 , retrieved 1-28-2020: This item is identified in the Smithsonian Institution's records as a fishing float, but more likely it was used with a sealing harpoon. It is made from a bladder, and has an inflation nozzle made from bone or antler attached to an opening at one end with a wrapping of sinew. Inserted into an opening in the nozzle is a stopper made from wood with a rounded head and a shaft that tapers towards one end. This float appears to have been stuffed with grass, perhaps to help hold its shape.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 69A00012
label: USNM Number
content: E7453-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Float