Strainer of baleen set in bent caribou antler with wooden handle. Probably a full size scoop with sawed off handle.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Point Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Point Barrow
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
R. A. Marr
Collection date:
August 11, 1883
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
To lift out newly found ice from fish hole." See Murdoch, Pt. Barrow Eskimo, pp. 308-09.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 54 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: see Murdoch, Pt. Barrow Eskimo, pp. 308-09.
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), S1962-1963 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Vincent Evans (June 24, 1963–June 24, 1963), S1966-1967 #102: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (May 3, 1967–May 3, 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 S1970-1971 #149: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (June 25, 1971–July 9, 1971)