Snow Shovel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: 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=545 , retrieved 11-23-2021; see web page for additional information: Shovel, Yup'ik. Young men used wooden shovels all winter long to clear snow from the doorways of houses in their villages. This duty was part of becoming a good hunter because it meant that a pathway was cleared for the seals so they would come to the people. The shovel and kayak were considered to be a young man's most important tools.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mission, Yukon River, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36073-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shovel
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 109.5 cm