Model Of A "Biadarka" Or Umiak Boat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Feb 1884
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "This is a peculiar form of bidarka; no figures were in the boat, some loose parts were once present in base of storage cases. (? In Engineering). Refer: Collins' MS. p. 799. USNM Bull. 127, p. 212-3." See Processing Lab accession file for additional information on this boat. Illus. Fig. 148, p. 154 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: "The angyak had a light, strong wooden frame made up of many individual pieces that were lashed together with whale baleen. This gave great flexibility and let the boat bend in rough water. As many as twenty large seal skins went into making the covering. The rounded bow, carved from a naturally curved piece of driftwood, lifted the boat over oncoming waves. This nineteenth-century model shoes the frame in accurate detail; identical full-sized parts have been recovered at the Karluk 1 archaeological site (Knecht 1995: 312-317)."
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 http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=201, retrieved 8-29-2012: Umiak model, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag. angyaq "open skin boat" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Kodiak Island dialect). Also called: baidar [from Russian word for boat].
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island / Karluk, Kodiak Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Koniag
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014024
label: USNM Number
content: E90464-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Umiak Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 75 cm