Bow With Painted Figures
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1863
label: Collection Date
content: 1853 to 1856
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. U S N John Rodgers
label: Collector
content: United States North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: United States North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 169, pp. 174-5 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 a sinew-backed bow, probably from the Alaska Peninsula. Painted figures on this bow include bears, birds, caribou, and hunters with rifles. Note: card for E2535, a quiver or case, indicates it is the container for E2528 - E2534.
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=12, retrieved 8-29-2012: Bow, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq). qitguyaq "bow" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect) Wooden bows backed with sinew cord were powerful and accurate weapons. Hunters carried them on their kayaks for sea otter hunting and on land for taking bears, caribou, mountain goats, and other game. Images of many different animals are painted on this bow: caribou, bear, beaver, whale, and some not easy to identify. The entire bow is reddened, perhaps with berry juice.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Islands (not certain) / Prince William Sound (not certain) / Alaska Peninsula (not certain), Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000321
label: USNM Number
content: E2528-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bow