Carved Human Figures
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: From card: "Household Gods. Rudely carved wooden figures of men and women all with bases for standing the images erect."
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=326 , retrieved 7-17-2018; see web page for additional information: Dolls. Some carved figures were dolls for girls to play with, but others were made for religious purposes. Girls dressed their wooden dolls and made houses for them. Estelle Oozevaseuk remembers tiny seal oil lamps that she made out of bottle caps for the dolls to use. Two of the figures are women, with pointed heads that show the hoods of their parkas.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. 5 of 10 figures on loan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 10
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055962
label: USNM Number
content: E280179-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Doll
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 15 cm