Implement For Removing Ice & Snow
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: Described p. 115 in Brown, James Temple. 1883. The whale fishery and its appliances. Washington: Govt. print. off.: "Eskimo Ice-brush. Handle, wood; flaring bone butt-piece, inserted in recessed handle and wrapped with strips of seal-skin. Brush consists of a narrow strip of baleen, horn colored, with fringe attached, and seized to the handle with seal-skin thongs. Length, 30 inches. King's Island, Alaska. E. W. Nelson. Used by natives for brushing away snow when seal hunting, and also for brushing snow and ice from their garments."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Mar 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: King Island, Bering Strait, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E63606-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ice Brush