Bird Bolas
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Jun 1943
label: Collection Date
content: 1891 to 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Stanley-Brown
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Stanley-Brown
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "7 bola stones with cords joined."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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 http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=708, retrieved 5-15-2014: Bolas Hunters whirled bolas around their heads and threw them into low-flying flocks of eiders and other ducks. Birds were entangled and fell to the ground. This set has sinew strings and weights made of walrus ivory. From Elders' discussions of the hat in 2003 (see web page cited above for the full entries) with Mary N. Bourdukofsky, Vlass Shabolin, Maria Turnpaugh and Daria Dirks (Tanadgusix Foundation) at the National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, 4/07/2003-4/11/2003. Also participating: Aron Crowell and Bill Fitzhugh (NMNH) and Suzi Jones (AMHA). "We tangle this around the bird wings when they fly pretty low.... A flock of king eiders, you know, they come in by the thousands just like one big solid smoke. So when we hunt, we throw something like this up in the air." - Vlass Shabolin.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aleut (Unangax^ ; Unangan; Unangas)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 165342
label: USNM Number
content: E383279-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bola
physicalDescription: label: Length - Bolas
content: 4.127 cm
label: Width - Bolas
content: 3.17 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 89 cm