Ivory Carvings Or Figures
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Jan 1887
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: Some Illus. Fig. 154, p. 160 and Fig. 165, p. 170 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 as from Naknek, Egegik and Ugashik villages, Alaska Peninsula.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on 6 of these artifacts http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=229, retrieved 9-5-2012: Figures, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag. suuguat "figures" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect) These small ivory figures representing real and mythical animals were toys, or perhaps hunting charms. These include a bear with a seal's hind flippers; a bear's head with open mouth and copper-inlaid eyes and nostrils; a sea otter floating on its back; a seal; a beluga whale; and an insect-like creature with eight legs and a hooked bird beak.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. 6 figures included on loan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 50
place: label: Place
content: Naknek / Egegik / Ugashik, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik, Aglemiut (Aglurmiut)
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: 018490
label: USNM Number
content: E127799-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure