Wooden Box, Ornamented
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. WOOD, IVORY, TRADE BEADS, SINEW (?), NELSON P.273. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL. 3, P.6. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." USIA Inua catalogue identifies as a snuff box, Iqmiutaq, with lid carved with smiling male face decorated with glass beads.
label: Notes
content: Photo and description in Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 2007. Yuungnaqpiallerput, The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival. Seattle: University Of Washington Press, p. 84. IqmiutaakTobacco box. Tobacco was used in southwest Alaska before the Russians arrived in the early 1800s. Men and women chew iqmik (tobacco mixed with ash) to this day.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Anogogmut, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, 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: E37539-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tobacco Box