Box
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: "WOODEN." Illus. Fig. 11, p. 22 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.
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=271, retrieved 9-6-2012: Box, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Chugach. yaasiik "box" - Language: Chugach Sugpiaq (Prince William Sound dialect) Covered boxes were made by heating and bending thin planks of wood, to hold water and food for kayak journeys and household storage. Hot rocks could be added to the box to bring its contents to a boil. This bentwood box from Prince William Sound has a tight-fitting lid and is scored and painted in geometric patterns. "They shape it and make a cover for it out of the same material ... Birch tree - you could bend it, so it was soft wood, taken from the tree soft. Then it hardens up, it dries up, and it forms like this." - Ignatius Kosbruk, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), 1997.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 29 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Family Group of the Western Eskimo, Alaska".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Hinchinbrook Island / Nutshuk (Nuchek), Prince William Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Chugach
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027806
label: USNM Number
content: E168637-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 18 cm