Birch Bark Vessel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""For milk" Inside brown birch bark, outside white with strips of brown. A loop of horsehair rope as a handle. for butter: 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: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Birch bark vessel. Yaghaia. 20th century, beginning. Birch bark, osier-bed, horsehair (mane), sinew. Sewing, twining, twisting, weaving, carving. H.: 23.5, D.: 21.5.The bucket is sewn from a single layer of birch bark with the white side facing outside and the brown side facing inside. The bucket is strengthened by three wide brown bands of birch bark encircling the body. The mouth is encircled with a wide, uneven osier-bed ring, sewn on using twisted horsetail hair in vertical combed stitches.The walls are stitched with sinew threads. The handle is woven in braids from black and white horse mane hair. The bottom is sewn on not tightly by a narrow band of birch bark using horsehair. Such bucket is used for storing dry food or gathering berries. The sloppy stitches and badly woven horsehair make it possible to date this bucket to the beginning of the 20th century when the folk crafts were in crisis and the quality of produced items declined.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, 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: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352225-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bark Container
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 23.5 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 21.5 cm