Baleen skewers
- Museum number:
- 2-4406
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004406
- Alternate number:
- x-552 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Neumann # 393. Folded baleen strips tied with sinew 2-ply cordage. 3 bundles tied together. Baleen stomach skewers tied with sinew placed in blubber bait to kill wolves, Es
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Cavia, Seward Peninsula, Nome Borough
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Seward Peninsula; Cavia
- Culture or time period:
- Malemiut Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Materials:
- Sinew (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Skewers
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- For baiting wolf.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 6.8 centimeters
- Comment:
- Remarks: "see Neumann catalog; and INUA p. 103" Second Orig. No.: Neumann #393.
- Loans:
- S1961-1962 #57: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 3, 1962–April 3, 1962), S1965-1966 #88: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (June 1, 1966–June 1, 1966), S1965-1966 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert F. G. Spier (June 16, 1966–July 29, 1966), S1966-1967 #102: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (May 3, 1967–May 3, 1967), S1966-1967 #103: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 4, 1967–May 4, 1967), S1967-1968 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 17, 1967–November 17, 1967), S1967-1968 #92: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 15, 1968–February 15, 1968), and S1983-1984 #14: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Anderson (Hupa) (September 19, 1983–September 26, 1983)
- Legacy documentation:
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