Dark whalebone yoke with two loops of cord each of which is threaded through a whalebone button. Made with commercial cordage. “Game -- object is to get one button to the other side -- made of whale bone.” Information supplied by donor. “Eskimo children’s game.”
Donor:
Dorothea Leighton
Collection place:
St. Lawrence Island, Nome Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Lawrence Island
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Dorothea Leighton
Collection date:
1940
Object type:
ethnography
Context of use:
Game -- object is to get one button to the other side -- made of whale bone." (Information supplied by donor.) "Eskimo children's game.