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Ice Scoop60.1/3415
Model of an Ice Scoop36.83

This miniature scoop has a net made from hide sinew laced across the hoop. It is a model of the ice scoops used around seal holes.

Culture
Eskimo
Material
whale bone, wood, hide, sinew and wire
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Ice ScoopE1093-0

Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/19 , retrieved 12-10-2019: This object is identified in the Smithsonian Institution catalogue as an 'ice scoop'; however, that identification is uncertain. It is a cup-shaped implement made from muskox horn that has been sewn into a covering made of dehaired and softened hide, likely from a newborn caribou.

Culture
Eskimo, Inuit and Inuvialuk
Made in
Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
National Museum of Natural History
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