Oil Dish Or Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. XXXI-8; P. 80. ILLUS. IN THE FAR NORTH CATALOG, NAT. GALL. OF ART, 1973, P. 83. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. 38,677. LOANED TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART OCTOBER 20, 1972. RETURNED 5-29-73. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL.14, P.15. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." USIA Inua catalogue identifies: "This beautiful bowl portrays a legendary creature. The handles are in the form of two human heads with masked eyes, an artistic motif indicating that they are spirits rather than humans."
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=724 , retrieved 11-23-2021; see web page for additional information: Bowl "qantaq", Yup'ik. On this solid wood Yup'ik oil dish the handles are carved human faces with glass beads for eyes. The painting inside depicts a creature with four limbs, a short tail, and the head of a crested bird. Like many Yup'ik paintings the image shows the creature's internal organs. Men carved bowls for their families and the designs they painted inside – often representing animal spirits – were handed down from father to son. Black paint was made from charcoal, gunpowder, or coal, and red from red ocher; both were mixed with seal blood.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 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: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E38677-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 35.5 cm