Bucket, With Handle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1882
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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 https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=592 , retrieved 7-31-2018; see web page for additional information: Bucket. "Every time when they get a whale, we used to have a little pail with a little scoop in there, a wooden water pail ... They always used it when they had ceremonies, for giving gratitude." - Estelle Oozevaseuk, 2001 Buckets with bentwood sides were used to store food, carry water, and bail out hunting boats. When a whale was caught, the boat captain's wife carried a wooden bucket filled with water, whale blubber, and roseroot down to the ice edge. In the whale greeting ceremony, she raised and lowered the bucket while her husband and the striker (harpooner) did the same with their paddles. The men rocked the boat and gave the whale-catch cry. They shared the food and drink that the captain's wife had brought, and then the striker threw his harpoon into the snow between her feet.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, St. Lawrence Island
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 82A00003
label: USNM Number
content: E63237-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bucket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 27.5 cm