Wood Carvings
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1894
name: label: Collector
content: J. H. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Illustrated and described in Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 1996. The Living Tradition of Yup'ik Masks: Agayuliyararput, Our Way of Making Prayer. University of Washington Press Seattle and London. p. 128. Identified there as "Hanging dance ornament with carved animal attachments supported on feather quills including two walrus, one whale, one ringed seal, one fish, and holes for three additional figures now lost. Black reathers around the rim are held in place with wooden plugs. J. H. Turner collected this unusual piece on the lower Yukon in 1891. Like the ellanguaq, it was probably made to rise and fall during performance. 54.6 cm.".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027937
label: USNM Number
content: E153674-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dance Ornament