Seal Club
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Oct 1913
name: label: Collector
content: Riley D. Moore
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Oval head of bone of whale mortised to wooden handle and lashed with thong. Thong from head to end of handle for carrying. Name: nuksamun tasintuk".
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=329 , retrieved 7-31-2018; see web page for additional information: Seal club. The club has a heavy bone head that was cut from the shoulder blade of a whale. It was used to kill harbor seals and fur seals that were resting on ocean rocks.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, St. Lawrence Island
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055962
label: USNM Number
content: E280236-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Club