Bola
- Museum number:
- 2-1966
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020001966
- Accession number:
- Acc.46
- Description:
- bola for catching ptarmigan; 7 ivory balls on rawhide. consisting of 7 or more strings with an ivory ball at one end of each one.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Lower Yukon; Eskimo att.
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Charles L. Hall
- Collection date:
- ca. 1895
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bolas (projectile weapons)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- August 12, 1902
- Context of use:
- for catching ptarmigan; used by children
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Legacy documentation:
-