Ivory Pendant Or Charm
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1880
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "46281-2. #46282 - FOX? PLACED WITH SIBERIAN MATERIAL BUT MAY BE YUIT NASSKATULAK. (BAE, BUL. 30, VOL. II, P.1008.)"
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=579 , retrieved 7-17-2018: Charm. This tiny walrus ivory charm is carved in the shape of a fox or dog, and may have given spiritual protection to its owner or luck in hunting. When at sea in their skin boats, Siberian Yupik hunters carried charm bundles containing ivory or wooden carvings of whales, seals, bears, foxes, or dogs, for protection against the sea's dangers.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plover Bay (Providence Bay), Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Koryak (?)
label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, Siberian (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 009536
label: USNM Number
content: E46282-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Charm
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 4.5 cm