Wooden Vessel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 12 Oct 1900
name: label: Donor Name
content: A B. Shubert
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Side of bent wood sewed and carved, pegged to cedar wood bottom." Illus. Fig. 11, p. 22 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. Identified there as a bentwood box, Chugach Alutiiq. "Vessels shaped from thin planks of steam-bent wood held water and food for kayak journeys or household storage. Hot rocks could be added to bring the contents to a boil."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Cook Inlet, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Chugach
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 037142
label: USNM Number
content: E207747-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 17 cm