Ball
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
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=701 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Ball. "This kind of ball always has what they call sun figures. They came from Siberia. They use reindeer mane hair." -Estelle Oozevaseuk, 2001 This leather kick-ball from a Yupik community on the Siberian coast is made of shaved seal hide and stuffed with reindeer hair. It bears an image of the sun, sewn on with bleached skin. Sun designs stitched with skin or reindeer hair are traditional, commemorating Raven's gift of daylight to the world.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, Siberian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360455-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ball
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 23.5 cm