Wooden Cup
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: "Same as 352241."
label: Notes
content: Identified by Zinaida Ivanova, Arctic Institute of Culture and Arts, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia Federation, 11-7-2012 as ceremonial cup for feasting, or choron, used for fermented mare's milk/koumiss.
label: Notes
content: Kumys (kumis, kumiss or koumiss) is a fermented milk product traditionally made from mare's milk (though industrial-scale production today generally uses cow's milk), which is popular in Central Asia, parts of Russia, and Eastern Europe. It is consumed both as food as well as an alcoholic drink.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Goblet, ornamented. Choron. 19th century, first half. Birch. Dimensional, contoured, three-side notched carving, hollowing. H.: 36.5, D.: 17.8. This is a classically shaped choron on a platform with a cone-shaped body. The upper part is slightly elongated and is shaped like a matarchakh wooden box. There is a blessing tarakhoyu combed ornament on the rim. The body is divided into nine narrow bands by an archaic vertebrae ornament that is framed on the top and bottom by a knot ornament. Numbers 7 and 9 are sacred for the Sakha people. A mesh ornament emphasizes the entasis. All items needed for preparing and ritual drinking of kumys are considered to be sacred.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E352243-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cup
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 36.5 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 17.8 cm