Ball
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: 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=330 , retrieved 7-17-2018; see web page for additional information: Ball. This hand ball is stuffed with reindeer hair and decorated with patchwork designs in bleached sealskin. The ball was used for a traditional game of keep-away between men and women, played to celebrate the first whale of the season. Elders urged the young men to paddle faster on the way back from whaling so that they would not miss the game. Circular designs on the ball represent the sun.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
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: E280256-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Ball
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 20 cm