Bobbin
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: "FOR SINEW THREAD." Illus. Fig. 40, p. 48 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=653, retrieved 9-19-2012: Bobbin, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq) To make thread for sewing, women cleaned and dried the back sinews of porpoises, whales, or caribou, then split them into individual fibers with a fingernail or comb. They moistened the strands and rolled them together between the hands, twisting in new pieces until they had thread of the right thickness and length. This wooden bobbin was used to wind up and store the sinew thread, as well as other materials such as embroidery yarn.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ugashik, Alaska Peninsula / Ugashik Quad / Ugashik River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Koniag
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027806
label: USNM Number
content: E168633-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bobbin
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 8 cm