Boa
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Feb 1892
name: label: Donor Name
content: U. S. Department of the Navy
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: Squirrels' tails. A muff or ruff to breathe through in cold weather (moitruk) - one moves it as sections in front of mouth frost or freeze up from the breath. Made from several hundred squirrel tails. Data provided 15 Dec. '82 by Dr. Ilja S. Gurvich, Head of Northern and Siberian Peoples Dept., Institute of Ethnography, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Recorded by Wm. C. Sturtevant."
label: Notes
content: Identified as a collar made of black fox tails, by Zinaida Ivanova, Arctic Institute of Culture and Arts, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia Federation, 11-7-2012.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Boa. Mojtoruk.19th century, middle. Fur (squirrel tail), hide, sinew. Sewing. L.: 280, W.: 23. A very long neck scarf from dark red, almost black squirrel tails, sewn in rings to a leather strap using sinew threads. Tied up with leather straps at the ends. The presence of two narrow points along the length of the scarf shows that, possibly, two such neck scarfs were joined into one. Mojtoruk fur scarf is worn in winter, wrapped around a neck and protecting the chin, the nose, the mouth and the cheeks from cold. When it becomes wet from breath, the scarf is turned over until the wet side dries out.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Jul 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: North, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025334
label: USNM Number
content: E153528-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Collar
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 280 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 23 cm