Scoop and pick

Museum number:
2-2793
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Wooden staff nearly 102 cm. in length terminates in deer horn point which is lashed firmly to staff with cords of sealskin. At opposite end is scoop, the ends being pierced and lashed together with rawhide cord. Rim is band of deer horn bent into a circle overlapping . Used for fishing through hole in ice.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Used for fishing through hole in ice.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 27 centimeters
Comment:
References: cf. Nelson p. 175 and Plate LXVII, Figs. 9 and 10.
Loans:
S1978-1979 #43: El Camino College (February 5, 1979–June 29, 1979)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scoop and pick, accession number 2-2793, described as Wooden staff nearly 102 cm. in length terminates in deer horn point which is lashed firmly to staff with cords of sealskin. At opposite end is scoop, the ends being pierced and lashed together with rawhide cord. Rim is band of deer horn bent into a circle overlapping . Used for fishing through hole in ice.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scoop and pick, accession number 2-2793, described as Wooden staff nearly 102 cm. in length terminates in deer horn point which is lashed firmly to staff with cords of sealskin. At opposite end is scoop, the ends being pierced and lashed together with rawhide cord. Rim is band of deer horn bent into a circle overlapping . Used for fishing through hole in ice.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scoop and pick, accession number 2-2793, described as Wooden staff nearly 102 cm. in length terminates in deer horn point which is lashed firmly to staff with cords of sealskin. At opposite end is scoop, the ends being pierced and lashed together with rawhide cord. Rim is band of deer horn bent into a circle overlapping . Used for fishing through hole in ice.

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