Hood
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Coast Survey
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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=517 , retrieved 11-18-2021; see web page for additional information: Hood, Yup'ik. Hat styles varied among southern Yup'ik villages, from simple circular caps to elaborate hoods with fringes and tails. The differences allowed a person's place of origin to be easily identified by observers. On Nunivak Island men and boys wore fancy hoods like this one during the Messenger Feast and Bladder Festival. It is made of white and brown caribou fur, spotted Arctic ground squirrel pelts, a wolverine tail, and small wolverine tassels. The long tassels at the bottom are caribou.
label: Notes
content: Elaborate man's fur hood with long caribou fur fringe. The hood is made from caribou, squirrel and seal fur, and is adorned with a wolverine tail and decorative features made from several different types of fur, red wool tassels and caribou skin painted with red ochre. The hood has a ruff made of several types of fur and skin straps used for securing the hood under the chin. See April 2007 conservation condition/treatment report for further information
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nunivak Island, Bering Sea, 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: 003195
label: USNM Number
content: E16344-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hood
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 81 cm