Spool
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Feb 1894
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FOR EMBROIDERY." Illus. Fig. 43, p. 49 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 seal-shaped spool was "used by Ugashik women in making fancy work," according to William J. Fisher. Embroidered strips or sinew thread may have been wrapped on the spool for storage."
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=652, retrieved 9-19-2012: Spool, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq). Women used this seal-shaped spool to wind up and store sewing materials for "fancy work." Sinew thread, dried gut, embroidered bands of seal esophagus, colored yarn, or other sewing materials might have been wrapped on the spool for storage.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ugashik, Alaska Peninsula / Ugashik Quad / Ugashik River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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: 027806
label: USNM Number
content: E168632-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spool
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 10.8 cm