Ice scratcher
- Museum number:
- 2-4400
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004400
- Alternate number:
- x-546 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Scraper used when hunting seal to imitate the sound made by seal scratching the ice; with wooden handle, seal claw tip.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Kotzebue Sound, Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Kotzebue Sound
- Culture or time period:
- Malemiut Eskimo
- Collector:
- Rudolph Neumann
- Materials:
- Sinew (material) and Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Scraper used when hunting seal to imitate the sound made by seal scratching the ice. Card also names this as: "Seal stalker's ice scratcher".
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 22 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-