Dog-whip with very long lash of plaited rawhide and short wooden handle. [MJD 13/11/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Dog-whip with very long lash of plaited rawhide and short wooden handle. [MJD 13/11/2012]
Long description: Dog-whip with very long lash of plaited rawhide and short wooden handle. The lash is cylindrical plaited hide, reducing to a double plaited strip and finishes with a single strip of hide. The lash is bound to the handle with a hide strip. The grip has a hide loop. [MJD 13/11/2012]
Geographical reference: Canada
Northern America > North America > Canada; Labrador Okak District
Cultural groups: Inuit (Greenland); Inuit
Person: Field collector S.W. Woodward; PRM source S.W. Woodward
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1914
Date collected: By 1914
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1914
Materials and processes: Material Animal Rawhide Skin, Material Wood Plant, Material String, Process Plaited, Process Carved, Process Braided
Dimensions: Length 6100 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1914.73.6 Other numbers: 1914.ß.317
Research and responses: Information from Laura Peers 6.5.03: '...between 1911 and 1921 influenza epidemics succeeded in killing the majority of the inhabitants of Okak and Hebron. Following the epidemic of the spring of 1919 which left only 59 of 266 people alive at Okak, the surviving adults of Okak were removed to Hopedale and Nain. Even with these new inhabitants, the population of Hopedale dropped from 215 in 1911 to 170 in 1921. ' Ref:http://collections.ic.gc.ca/agvituk/hopehist.htm *See also the National Film Board of Canada video, 1985, Last Days Of Okak,' on the destructionof the Inuit community of Okak by the Influenza in 1918. [AP 6/5/2003]

Search terms: Animal Gear, Transport and Travel, Punishment and Torture, Whip, Dog Accessory

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