Hunting Hat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1872
label: Collection Date
content: 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Vincent Colyer
label: Donor Name
content: Vincent Colyer
notes: label: Notes
content: Catalogued as "a straw hat used at present date, Aleutian Islands", however it has been identified as a twined spruce root hat by Dawn Glinsmann. See Hat 105, p. 220 in Glinsmann, Dawn. 2006. Northern Northwest Coast spruce root hats. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. Glinsmann identifies the hat as Sugpiaq/Alutiiq (Pacific Yup'ik) style.
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 http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=511, retrieved 8-29-2012: Hunting hat, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag; Kodiak Island, Alaska. awirnaq "spruce root hat" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Kodiak Island dialect) Sugpiaq men wore woven spruce-root hats decorated with glass trade beads and dentalium shells. Weaving on the brim was patterned to make radiating diagonals, zigzags, or diamonds, while the crown was smoothly woven for painting. The image on this hat represents an animal - possibly a hunter's helping spirit - with its face forward and teeth displayed; its body wraps around the crown. The eyes look like goggles, a style also seen in Yup'ik and Deg Hit'an spirit art. Men wore spruce-root hats both at sea and during winter hunting ceremonies.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island (not certain), Aleutian Islands (not certain) / Kodiak Islands (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Koniag
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002478
label: USNM Number
content: E11378-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 40 cm