Large Wooden Bowl
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: ""Used on weddings and other festivals." Two cracks in bottom have been repaired with tin."
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Bowl. Kytakh. 19th century, second half. Wood. Hollowing, dimensional, flat, contoured carving. H.: 18, D.: 53.This wide and deep bowl is well-oiled turning dark in colour. The neck is decorated on the outside with two rows of simple parallel lines. Two large cracks at the base are glued and fixed on top by thin metal plates. Such bowls were used as communal vessels for large families, as well as for storing national dairy products during celebrations.
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: E352238-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 53 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 18 cm