Man's Hunting Bag (Ak-Fju-Dat)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Dec 1882
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: IDENTIFIED BY FRAN REED AS MADE OF ESOPHAGUS WITH STOMACH (WALRUS?) EDGE, 2/1999. Illus. Fig. 166, p. 171 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 this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=162 , retrieved 8-30-2012: Hunting bag, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag. ekgwiutaq "hunting bag, sewing bag" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect) Men carried bags to hold ammunition, tobacco, arrowheads, and other necessities for hunting. This skin bag is embellished with colored thread, yarn, and caribou hair embroidery. Appliqué designs are made of thin, dyed skin, probably seal esophagus. The mouth of the bag is trimmed with seal fur and the strap is made of twisted sinew.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: 1989 analysis of fur by Bonnie Farmer, NMNH Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology: Phoca vitulina / Harbor (Common) Seal: Forms fringes of short, blackish and gold hairs encircling outer perimeter and/or along edges of leather. Rangifer tarandus / Caribou/Reindeer: Used to create white stitching and trim on leather and around edges. Unknowns/Tentative Identifications: Short, white stiff fibers sewn into seams over the Phoca appear to be Gulo luscus (Wolverine). Samples were examined by Bob Mann, NMNH Dept. of Anthropology, and determined not to be human hair.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Feb 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Lesnoi Island (Woody Island), 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: 012209
label: USNM Number
content: E72500-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 21.5 cm