Bag Of Fish-Skin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: Big Lake is on the Yup'ik / Deg Hit'an / Dena'ina border. So it may be either Athabascan or Yup'ik. This style of bag appears in Osgood to confirm that it may be Deg Hit'an.
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=548, retrieved 8-26-2012: Bag, Deg Xinag/Deg Hit'an Athabascan. Salmon skins can be scraped, tanned, and sewn together to make waterproof boots, mittens, and bags. Fishskin bags in various sizes were traditionally used to store clothing and foods such as fish eggs and salmon oil. On this Deg Hit'an bag, the scaly sides of the skins face outward except for several strips that are turned inward and painted brown. These colored sections are ornamented with caribou hair stitching and tufts of hair.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Big Lake, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Athabascan (Athabaskan) (?)
label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik (?)
label: Culture
content: Ingalik (Deg Xitʼan, Degexitʼan, Deg Hit'an) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36181-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 29.5 cm