Ice Scoop Item Number: E1093-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
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.
Item History
- Made in Northwest Territories, Canada
- Collected in Northwest Territories, Canada
- Received from Roderick R. MacFarlane on May 18, 1865
What
- Name
- Ice Scoop
- Identification Number
- E1093-0
- Type of Item
- ice scoop
Who
- Culture
- Eskimo, Inuit and Inuvialuk
- Received from
- Roderick R. MacFarlane
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Northwest Territories, Canada
- Collected in
- Northwest Territories, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- on May 18, 1865
Other
- Accession Number
- 65A00065