Dried Salmon "Sat-chep" for Altar Offering
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Whole dried salmon. Long curly wood shavings along the length of the fish. All tied together at the neck, middle, and tail. Short rope with ends tied to the tail and neck (presumably for hanging). According to Chisato Dubreuil, this is an altar offering to the gods (kamuy). Made for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People". Ms. Dubreuil notes that this is a real salmon that was chemically treated for exhibit (though there is no record of how exactly it was treated).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2026093
label: USNM Number
content: E431493-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Offering
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 76 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca 10 cm
label: Height - Object
content: ca 20 cm