Model Boat, Umiak
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1865
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Charles S. Bulkley
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: See Collins boat MS. p. 795 and Processing Lab Accession file for additional information on this boat. Originally catalogued as "Kolosh", i.e. Tlingit. Boat model is illustrated p.78 in Rhees, William Jones. 1880. Visitor's guide to the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, Washington, D.C., Part 3 [Washington]: Judd & Detweiler, Printers and Publishers. https://books.google.com/books?id=L5ZJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false Illus. Fig. 145, p. 152 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 an Angyak model, Kodiak Island, by Aron Crowell, i.e. Sugpiak/Alutiiq (Pacific Yup'ik). "The men in this model of a small angyaq wear three kinds of headgear: seal hunting helmets, spruce root hats with tall tops that indicated wealth, and bentwood hunting hats in the form of open-topped cones with slanting brims, a style from the Alaska Peninsula. Sprays of colored yarn depict water thrown back from the surging bow of the boat."
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=2, retrieved 8-29-2012: Umiak model, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag; Kodiak Island, Alaska. angyaq "open skin boat" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Kodiak Island dialect). Also called: baidar [from Russian word for boat].
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 10.9, p. 223 in Luukkanen, Harri, Fitzhugh, William W., and Evguenia Anichtchenko. 2020. The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia. Washington DC: Smithsonian Scholarly Press.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island (not certain), Kodiak Islands (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit (?)
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: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E1130-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Umiak Model
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 35 cm