Wooden Spoon Or Ladle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "1/83 SITES INUA LOAN."
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=561 , retrieved 11-23-2021; see web page for additional information: Ladle, Yup'ik. The painting of a seal on this serving ladle recalls a traditional ritual practice. Women greeted seals that their husbands had killed, using a ladle to offer the animal fresh snow or drinking water and to sprinkle moisture on its flipper joints. This completed the seal's journey from water to land and satisfied its thirst. The seal's spirit would let others know to come to the hunters of that village.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Sfugunugumut, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E38634-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 17.2 cm