Snow Sled Model
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Nov 1883
label: Collection Date
content: 1882 to 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Leonhard H. Stejneger
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Itelmese. - i.e. perhaps Italman (Kamchadal) people? Illus. in USNM AR, 1894, fig. 241, p. 550."
label: Notes
content: Catalogue card identifies as from Kamchatka, Siberia. Anthropology catalogue ledger book entry provides the additional and more specific provenience of "Peterpaulski Harbor." This is assumed to be the same place Stejneger refers to in his publications as Petropaulski Harbor, i.e. assumed to be Petropavlovsk.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=605 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Sled (model). This Russian style dog sled was widely used by eastern Siberian peoples, including the Koryak, Itelmen, Chukchi, and the Nivkh on Sakhalin Island. In steep terrain the driver grabbed the vertical hoop for balance. Along with new styles of sleds, Russians introduced the "in-line" method of dog harnessing that is used today. The earlier indigenous practice had been to hitch a fan of dogs to the front of the sled, each on its own line.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Petropaulski Harbor (Petropavlovsk), Kamchatka, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
label: Culture
content: Itelmen (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013728
label: USNM Number
content: E73018-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sled Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 52.5 cm