{"id":"ARCTIC-009","label":"West Hudson Bay svingstikke (KHM Oslo)","people_or_site":"Hudson Bay","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"West coast of Hudson Bay","macroregion":"North America / Arctic","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"","object_description":"A 19 cm leaf-shaped wooden blade, both edges cut into regular saw-teeth, on a single sinew cord (KHM Oslo UEM26188).","function_summary":"Catalogued as a toy (leke); no field function recorded.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"review2026","source_type":"museum_catalog_record","source_url":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213516412","page_or_plate":"UEM26188","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Approximate west-Hudson-Bay coastal anchor; the museum's only provenance is the coast itself.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"A leaf-shaped blade of dark wood, its edges sawed into even teeth, hangs from a single twist of sinew — the whole instrument nineteen centimetres from tip to tail. It came off the west coast of Hudson Bay, Inuit country, with no note of community or maker, and entered the Oslo registers under two Norwegian names, svingstikke and brummer — whirling-stick and hummer — with a third word, leke, marking what its collector took it for: a toy.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM26188 (svingstikke / brummer / leke)","url":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213516412","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012235039/https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213516412"}],"source_citations":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM26188 (svingstikke / brummer / leke)","source_display":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM26188 (svingstikke / brummer / leke)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A 19 cm leaf-shaped wooden blade, both edges cut into regular saw-teeth, on a single sinew cord (KHM Oslo UEM26188).","function_display":"Catalogued as a toy (leke); no field function recorded.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"hudson bay","display_name":"West Hudson Bay svingstikke (KHM Oslo)","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/ARCTIC-009_khm_uem26188.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/thumbs/ARCTIC-009_khm_uem26188_thumb.jpg","credit":"Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, UEM26188; photo Camilla and Mårten Teigen","license":"CC BY-SA","source_page":"https://digitaltmuseum.org/0210213516412","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Hudson Bay blade: saw-toothed along both edges, its sinew cord knotted at the tip (KHM Oslo UEM26188)."},"slug":"arctic-009-hudson-bay"}