Club Item Number: A2.116 a-b from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Handle of grey-white antler (?) with a flat, horizontal, L-shaped top end (part a). Thick, wedge-shaped brown object with a flat bottom (part b) that rests upon the L-shaped end of the handle; both part a and b have multiple holes (for lashings?) bored through them.
History Of Use
Previously used as a club. Recently used for pounding seal blubber into liquid. This is then used as fuel in koodlic, seal oil lamp.
Narrative
Collected by Glyndwr Abraham while working as an R.C.M.P. officer between July 1929 and July 1959.
Item History
- Made in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada
- Collected during 1943
- Owned by Glyndwr Abraham before October 26, 1971
- Received from Glyndwr Abraham (Donor) on October 26, 1971
What
- Name
- Club
- Identification Number
- A2.116 a-b
- Type of Item
- club
- Material
- antler ? and musk ox horn
- Manufacturing Technique
- carved and drilled
- Part A
- height 28.0 cm, width 3.0 cm, depth 7.0 cm
- Part B
- height 3.2 cm, width 6.2 cm, depth 12.5 cm
Who
- Culture
- Inuit: Netsilingmiut
- Previous Owner
- Glyndwr Abraham
- Received from
- Glyndwr Abraham (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, Canada
When
- Collection Date
- during 1943
- Ownership Date
- before October 26, 1971
- Acquisition Date
- on October 26, 1971
Other
- Condition
- fair
- Accession Number
- 0181/0003 a-b