Sledge model

Museum number:
2-57626
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Accession number:
Acc.3041
Description:
Made of 3 wide strips of baleen tied together with baleen crossbars and strips. Rawhide line around periphery.
Donor:
John A. Hiemann
Collection place:
Point Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Point Barrow
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
John A. Hiemann
Collection date:
ca. 1959
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
Cargo sledge.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 17.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Murdock, John, The Point Barrow Eskimo, pp. 356-57, fig. 359.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sledge model, accession number 2-57626, described as Made of 3 wide strips of baleen tied together with baleen crossbars and strips. Rawhide line around periphery.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Sledge model, accession number 2-57626, described as Made of 3 wide strips of baleen tied together with baleen crossbars and strips. Rawhide line around periphery.

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