Wood Carvings
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Aug 1919
name: label: Donor Name
content: Vladimir K. Arseniev (Arsenyev, Arseneff)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Cut from willow canes and shaped to represent a [left blank]. Bark cut and removed in geometric patterns. Compare Eskimo ivory ducks."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. 5 of 14 figures on loan. #38, 37, 40, 47, 44.
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=684 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Figures. These Ulcha or Nanay spirit sticks were cut from willow canes, with patterns formed by the remaining bark. Their stake-like form suggests that the figures were stuck into the ground, to stand upright.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 14
place: label: Place
content: Habarovsk (Khabarovsk), Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Siberian
label: Culture
content: Goldi (Nanai) (?)
label: Culture
content: Orok (Ulcha, Ulta) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 063972
label: USNM Number
content: E309972-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19.2 cm