Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Oct 1913
name: label: Collector
content: Riley D. Moore
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum
notes: 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=323 , retrieved 7-31-2018; see web page for additional information: Headdress, or headband. "The women always wore this when their husbands had killed a whale, when they took that ceremonial pail down to the beach filled with water." - Estelle Oozevaseuk, 2001 When a successful whaling boat returned to camp, the captain's wife brought water to the crew. The harpooner pretended to strike her with his weapon, throwing it between her feet instead. For whaling rituals and celebrations she wore a reindeer hair headdress and snow-white intestine parka.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, St. Lawrence Island
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055962
label: USNM Number
content: E280148-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 61 cm