Cap For Summer Wear
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Sep 1883
name: label: Donor Name
content: Charles L. McKay
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1977."
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=120 , retrieved 11-4-2021; see web page for additional information: Hat, Yup'ik. Each Yup'ik region has distinctive traditional designs for its clothing. This Kuskokwim River boy's cap is made from the white-spotted skins of arctic ground squirrels, with a weasel (ermine) "tail." It is ornamented with ... strands of red yarn, and red-dyed tassels of squirrel skin. South of the Yukon River, parkas were usually made without hoods. For warmth, people wore fur hats made of arctic ground squirrel, caribou, fox, mink, wolf, or otter. Yup'ik Elder Annie Blue of Togiak said: "Our ancestors used various kinds of skins for hats to keep their heads warm in the winter ... I have seen people wearing uivqurrat [circular skin caps] made out of squirrel and mink skins. The hats were decorated." Just like parkas and boots, hat styles varied considerably between villages, from circular caps to heavy hoods that were hung with tails and tassels. Zagoskin noted that the most highly decorated Kuskokwim hats were for ceremonial occasions. On Nunivak Island, men and boys wore fur hats during the Messenger Feast and Bladder Festival.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Nov 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bristol Bay, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 013527
label: USNM Number
content: E56063-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Length - 1 Of 2
content: 42 cm
label: Width - 1 Of 2
content: 26 cm
label: Diameter - 1 Of 2
content: 15 cm
label: Length - 2 Of 2
content: 32 cm
label: Width - 2 Of 2
content: 19 cm
label: Diameter - 2 Of 2
content: 18 cm