Awl
- Date created
- 1880-1890
- Culture/People
- Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Collector
- Edward W. Nelson (Edward William Nelson/E.W. Nelson), Non-Indian, 1855-1934
- Previous owner
- U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History)
- Collection History
- Collected between 1877 and 1881 by Edward W. Nelson (1855-1934, a naturalist with the US Army Signal Corps on board the "Corwin" and assigned to collect natural and cultural specimens for the U.S. National Museum); purchased by the U.S. National Museum (precursor to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History) in 1897; acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the US National Museum in 1908.
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- Place
- Cape Vancouver; Calista Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
- See related items
- Yup'ik (Yupik)
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 2/388
- Barcode
- 020388.000
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Awl
- Media/Materials
- Ivory
- Techniques
- Incised
- Dimensions
- 10.2 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_21591