Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Oct 1886
name: label: Collector
content: Sgt. Samuel Applegate
label: Collector
content: John W. Clark
label: Donor Name
content: Sgt. Samuel Applegate
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=220 , retrieved 10-24-2018; see web page for additional information: Headdress, Yup'ik. In coastal villages of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, men who led ceremonial "asking songs" during Kevgik (the Messenger Feast), wore caribou-hair headdresses like this one. They directed the drumming and singing with feathered enirarautet (pointing sticks or dance sticks). Women wore similar headdresses, which remain a part of modern Yup'ik dance regalia for both sexes. Some villages carry on the tradition of Kevgik today, although the details have changed.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Togiakamute / Togiak, Togiak River (Mouth), 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: 018036
label: USNM Number
content: E127329-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 87 cm