{"id":"NATMUS1918-001","label":"Agto saw-toothed blade","people_or_site":"Kalaallit (West Greenland Inuit), Agto","country_current":"Greenland","historic_region":"Agto (Attu), Aasiaat (Egedesminde) district, West Greenland","macroregion":"North America / Arctic","local_name":"","source_term":"brummer","source_language":"Danish","object_description":"A wooden leaf-shaped blade, 13 × 2.6 cm, notched like a saw along both edges and tied at its narrow tip to a long cord. National Museum of Denmark, L.7956.","function_summary":"Plaything: the museum files it among games.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"natmus_es_l7956","source_type":"museum_collection","source_url":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/67934","page_or_plate":"L.7956 (object 67934; list no. 107)","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot","coordinate_basis":"Attu (old spelling Agto) settlement, Qeqertalik municipality, south of Aasiaat; the museum names Agto in Egedesminde district.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Thirteen centimetres of wood, cut to a narrow leaf and notched all the way round like a saw blade, then tied at its tip to a long cord. It comes from Agto, the small settlement now called Attu, south of Aasiaat, in the old Egedesminde district of West Greenland, and was given to the National Museum in Copenhagen in 1918, where it was catalogued as a brummer, a 'hummer', and filed among games. On the far side of the ice cap, at Ammassalik, the same saw-toothed blades were children's toys.","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":"National Museum of Denmark, Ethnographic Collection, L.7956, brummer (Agto, Egedesminde district, gift 1918)","url":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/67934","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240622215350/https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/67934"}],"source_citations":"National Museum of Denmark, Ethnographic Collection, L.7956, brummer (Agto, Egedesminde district, gift 1918)","source_display":"National Museum of Denmark, Ethnographic Collection, L.7956, brummer (Agto, Egedesminde district, gift 1918)","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden leaf-shaped blade, 13 × 2.6 cm, notched like a saw along both edges and tied at its narrow tip to a long cord. National Museum of Denmark, L.7956.","function_display":"Plaything: the museum files it among games.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kalaallit","display_name":"Agto saw-toothed blade","image":{"full":"assets/objects/NATMUS1918-001_natmus_l7956.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/NATMUS1918-001_natmus_l7956_thumb.jpg","alt":"A narrow wooden leaf-shaped blade with saw-toothed edges, a long looping cord tied to its pointed end, on a pale grey background.","credit":"Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, Etnografisk Samling L.7956 (photo Martin Appelt)","source_page":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/67934","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The Agto blade, L.7956: a saw-toothed wooden leaf on its long cord.","last_modified":"2026-11-12"},"slug":"natmus1918-001-kalaallit-west-greenland-inuit-agto"}