Awl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT.1; PL. XLVI-7; P. 110 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "BODKIN.---MADE OF WALRUS IVORY. HANDLE ORNAMENTED WITH A SERIES OF PARALLEL LINES EXTENDING AROUND THE BODKIN. A PENDANT CHAIN CARVED OUT OF IVORY IS ATTACHED TO THE END OF THE HANDLE. A PORTION OF THE LAST LINK OF THE CHAIN IS CARVED TO REPRESENT A SEAL'S TAIL. LENGTH, 9 INCHES; DIAMETER, 3/8 INCH. ESKIMO OF LOWER KUSKOQUIM, ALASKA. 36,631. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON."
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 https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=552 , retrieved 10-25-2021; see web page for additional information: Awl, Yup'ik. An awl is used to make starter holes through hide when sewing boat covers, clothing, and boots. Sewing tools were traditionally among a woman's most prized processions and were often highly decorated. This ivory awl has a fancy carved chain with a seal's tail on the end.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kuskokwim Bay, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36631-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Awl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 0.953 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 22.5 cm