Combs
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Dec 1866
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: For comb # 1 of 2 (called A in website): 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/89 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Comb made from ivory. The teeth were produced by making a series of small cuts at one end, probably using a saw judging from the nature of the cuts. Two notches on opposite edges of the handle likely were used for attaching a thong so that the comb could be attached to a belt. For comb # 2 of 2 (called B in website): http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/291 , retrieved 1-3-2020: Comb made from ivory. The teeth were produced by making a series of small cuts at one end, probably using a saw judging from the nature of the cuts. Two shallow notches on opposite edges of the handle likely were used for attaching a thong so that the comb could be attached to a belt. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/17: Small combs with fine teeth were used for personal grooming, as well as for combing sewn fur items.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: 66A00090
label: USNM Number
content: E2217-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Comb