Drill Bow
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Mar 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department of Agriculture
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ETCHED. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 88. ILLUS: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 5, ARCTIC, FIG. 2B, PG. 288, AND FIG. 9, PG. 156. LOANED: HOUSTON MUSEUM OF ART, AUGUST 25, 1969. RET: 12/17/69. 176,172 LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73." Illustrated Fig. 328, p. 264 (face shown in bw neg. # 83-10990 and color digital neg. # 2008-5220), in Fitzhugh, William W., Susan A. Kaplan, and Henry B. Collins. 1982. Inua: spirit world of the Bering Sea Eskimo. Washington, D.C.: Published for the National Museum of Natural History by the Smithsonian Institution Press.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Gerald A. Bair and Kenneth L. Pratt, "History and Native Art, " in Pratt, Kenneth L. 2009. Chasing the dark: perspectives on place, history and Alaska Native land claims. Anchorage, Alaska: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alaska Region, Division of Environmental and Cultural Resources Management, ANCSA Office, 322-328. See especially pp. 325-326 where this engraved drill bow is illustrated (face shown in bw neg. # 83-10990 and color digital neg. # 2008-5220) and interpreted to include a scene memorializing the 1881 visit of the two-masted schooner W. F. March to the Golovnin Bay-Fish area.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Golovnin Bay, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031796
label: USNM Number
content: E176172-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Drill