Necklaces
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Feb 1894
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FOR CHILDREN. INVENTORIED 1974." # 1 of 2 Illus. Fig. 34, p. 44 in Crowell, Aron, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar. 2001. Looking both ways: heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press. Identified there: "Child's necklace. The four pockets of this child's necklace are sewn shut, and their contents (if any) are unknown. The necklace may be a protective amulet. Elder Lucille Antowak Davis remembers that Kodiak midwives saved and dried the amniotic sac of a newborn, and placed it in a cloth pouch that a child wore around her neck. The amulet provided reassurance and protection." Necklace # 1 of 2 pockets are made from red cloth. Necklace # 2 of 2 is very similar in design, but the four pockets are made from blue cloth.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on necklace # 1 of 2, http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=653, retrieved 9-19-2012: Necklace, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Chugach. y.uamillquaq "necklace" - Language: Chugach Sugpiaq (Prince William Sound dialect)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Hinchinbrook Island / Nutshuk (Nuchek), Prince William Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Chugach
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027806
label: USNM Number
content: E168634-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length - # 1 Of 2
content: 19 cm