Earrings (1 Pair)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Oct 1886
name: label: Collector
content: Sgt. Samuel Applegate
label: Collector
content: John W. Clark
label: Donor Name
content: Sgt. Samuel Applegate
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Blue and white beads. Loan: Crossroads Sep 22 1988. Loan returned: Jan 21 1993. Illus.: Crossroads of Continents catalogue; Fig. 299, p. 255."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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 https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=223 , retrieved 10-24-2021; see web page for additional information: Earrings, Yup'ik. Yup'ik women, especially those living in villages south of the lower Yukon River, wore earrings, necklaces, and labrets (lip ornaments) in designs that combined glass trade beads with walrus ivory hooks and fasteners. When a young girl's ears were pierced, braided caribou hair or ivory pins were put in the holes to keep them from closing, which would ruin her eyesight. Designs on the earrings represent Ellam Yua, the Person of the Universe. Men also wore labrets and earrings. Beaded jewelry was part of the regalia that people wore during ceremonies and dances.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Tuniakpuk, Togiak River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 018036
label: USNM Number
content: E127473-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Earring
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 5.5 cm