Wooden Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1875
label: Collection Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Ernst Hennig
label: Donor Name
content: Alaska Commercial Company
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 23, p. 43 in in Black, Lydia. 2003. Aleut art = Unangam aguqaadangin. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers. Identified there as a bentwood dish collected by Captain Hennig in 1872.
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=489, retrieved 5-14-2014: Bowl, Unangax^ (Aleut) Household goods, drums, and masks were placed in dry burial caves with the carefully prepared bodies of chiefs and other important people, for them to use in the afterlife. This storage bowl from Kagamil Cave in the Islands of the Four Mountains is between 500 and 1000 years old. It was made by heating and bending a shaved plank of wood to make the oval rim, then adding a solid piece of wood for the base.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kagamil Island, Samalga Island Quad / Umnak Quad / Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric Aleut (Unangax^ ; Unangan; Unangas)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003745
label: USNM Number
content: A17454-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 19.2 cm