Wooden Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""For milk, soup, or gruel." Ornamented on exterior."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Bowl. Kytakh. 19th century. Wood. Hollowing, dimensional, three-side notched, contoured carving. H.: 16.5, D.: 20.7. There is a narrow band of geometric ornament under the rim; a wavy ornament carved in-between straight lines on the neck; a mesh ornament on the body; and separate groups of finger-like ornament under the bottom. Kytakh bowls were used as communal vessels for large families, as well as for storing national dairy products during celebrations.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352235-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 16.5 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 20.7 cm