Small Flint Whale Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Dec 1929
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Henry B. Collins Jr.
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Henry B. Collins Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "(Excavated from old village. Purchased from Eskimos. Probably less than 200 years old.)"
label: Notes
content: Inupiat whale-shaped whaler's charm, flint, ca. 1800, purchased by Henry B. Collins from Inupiat villagers, 1929.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 100 p. 88 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there as Inupiaq whaling charm from the 1700s: black chert whale charm.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Point Hope, Point Hope Quad, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 104800
label: USNM Number
content: A347715-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure