Calendar
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Feb 1884
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "tsish-lat. Also a bone spoon." [Spoon is incorrectly numbered 90435. It is actually E90432-0] Calendar illus. Fig. 202, p. 213 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. Identified there as a Russian Orthodox peg calendar. "Pegs were moved one hole each day on this household calendar of the Russian Orthodox year. One peg traveled the top row of seven holes for days of the week, with a cross for Sunday. Another moved through monthly rows of 30, 31, and 28 holes, starting with September, the beginning of the ecclesiastical year. Crosses, circles, and x's mark major and minor feast days."
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 http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=192, retrieved 9-2-2012: Calendar, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag. cisllaq "calendar" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island / Orlova (Eagle Harbor), Kodiak Islands, 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: 014024
label: USNM Number
content: E90435-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Calendar
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 17.5 cm