Blubber Hook "Ja-Lech-Tshun"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Jan 1887
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 155, p. 161 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 artifact E127811, # 1 of 2: http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=234 , retrieved 8-31-2012: Blubber hook, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag. iqsaguaq "small hook" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect) When a hunter brought home a seal or beluga whale the entire village shared in the feast. Gifts of sea mammal blubber for elders and children were carried home on special bone or ivory hooks.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027; hook # 1 of 2 only is on loan; second hook is not on loan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Ugashik, Alaska Peninsula / Ugashik River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: 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: 018490
label: USNM Number
content: E127811-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Blubber Hook
physicalDescription: label: Length - Hook # 1 Of 2
content: 18 cm
label: Length - Hook # 2 Of 2
content: 19 cm