Water-Tube Of Narwhal Horn
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1871
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Charles F. Hall
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 6TH AR, FIG. 489, P. 535." BAE 6th Annual Report identifies this object as a tube for drinking melt water from under melting snow, i.e. a sipping water tube.
label: Notes
content: Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies this as made of narwhal horn (i.e. narwhal tooth/ivory). Narwhal was mistranscribed as "narqhal" on the catalogue card.
label: Notes
content: This sipping or drinking tube is on display in NMNH exhibit "Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend", 2017 - 2019.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Iglulik
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002157
label: USNM Number
content: E10383-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Water Tube