Belt Worn By Women (Na-Ko-Gun)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Dec 1882
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 192, p. 203 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. It is identified there as part of a "full set of bead ornaments worn by the Ugashak [Ugashik] belles" that William Fisher purchased in 1881. This set also included E72464, E72465, E72466, and E72467.
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=153, retrieved 9-5-2012: Belt, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag taugciq "belt" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect) This woman's dance belt is made of soft, tanned caribou skin and ornamented with glass trade beads and brass rifle cartridges. It is stitched with fine sinew thread. The belt fastens at the waist with the two leather ties, leaving the fringed flaps to hang down in front. Dancers wore beaded belts, headdresses, and jewelry during the 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: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska Peninsula / Bristol Bay / Ugashik River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik (?)
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: 012209
label: USNM Number
content: E72470-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Belt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 118 cm