Small Tobacco Box, Fish
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: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; P1. LXXXVI-13; P.270. ILLUS IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 85. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. WOOD, IVORY PEGS, (NELSON. 279). LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 108 p. 94 in Chaussonnet, Valerie. 1995. Crossroads Alaska: native cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Identified there as Yup'ik snuff box in the shape of a fish. The lid is under the belly of the fish.
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=549 , retrieved 11-18-2021; see web page for additional information: Tobacco box, Yup'ik. Many men and women used tobacco in the form of snuff - finely chopped and sifted leaves that they took into their noses through an ivory tube or the wing bone of a goose. They also chewed tobacco that had been mixed with the ashes of birch tree fungus, coltsfoot, butterbur, willow, and other plants. People carried their supplies of snuff and chewing tobacco in small wooden boxes, often carved to represent animals. This one is probably a fish, with gills on the sides. The beauty of carved snuff boxes reflected the value of their contents.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kulwoguwigumut, Kuskokwim 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: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36282-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tobacco Box
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 9 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 4.5 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 5 cm