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Kύmotǐn, Scraping and Cleaning Comb

1998.19.2890

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Basic Information

Artifact Identification Kύmotǐn, Scraping and Cleaning Comb   (1998.19.2890)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Materials T&E
    2. :
  2. Leather, Horn & Shellworking T&E
    3. :
  3. N/A
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period N/A
Date 1700-1800
Culture Native American: Arctic: Inupiaq (Inuit)
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 13.1 cm
Dimension 2 (Diameter) 3.0 cm
Dimension 3 (N/A) N/A
Weight 72 g
Measuring Remarks Under Review
Materials Animal--Bone, Animal--Antler (either caribou or reindeer)
Manufacturing Processes Carved

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Murdoch, John. Originally published in 1892 and reprinted in 1988, Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition/Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, pgs. 300-301.

Ford, James Alfred. (1959) Eskimo Prehistory in the Vicinity of Point Barrow, Alaska. New York, pgs. 208-209.

Confirms that Crocker Land Expedition never went to Alaska:

THE CROCKER LAND EXPEDITION UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND THE AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. (1912) Science, New Series 35(898), 404-408.

The Crocker Land Expedition. (1913). Science, New Series 38(969), 120-121.

The Crocker Land Expedition. (1917). Science, New Series 45(1172) 609-610.

Narrative of the Crocker Land Expedition. (1918). Geographical Review, 5(3), 241-243.

Hunt, Harrison. J.Thompson, Ruth Hunt. (1980) North to the Horizon: searching for Peary's Crocker Land. Camden, Me.: Down East Books.

Kjaer, K.G. & Foxworthy, H. (2004). The Arctic Ship Danmark. Polar Record, 40(212), 31-38.

MacMillan, Donald Baxter. Ekblaw, Walter Elmer. (1918, new ed. 1933) Four Years in the White North. New York, Harper & Brother.

Preston, Douglas J. (1983) The Search for the Arctic Atlantis. Natural History, 92(11), 112-118.

Cheri Vitez, Research Associate, 5/11/2011

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Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Museum of Natural History, UIUC
Reproduction No

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