Skin Receptacle Or Bag
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: "Bellows of mare's skin for transporting of milk, cream, etc."
label: Notes
content: Identified by Zinaida Ivanova, Arctic Institute of Culture and Arts, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia Federation, 11-7-2012, as either a model or a child's version of a bag used for fernented mare's milk or koumiss. The full size one is usually made of ox hide, and is used as the container in which the milk is churned/fermented. See E352248 for an example of a full size one.
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: Bag. Simirchekh. 19th century, second half. Bull hide, wood, sinew. Smoking, sewing, carving. H.: 25.5, W.: 24. The bag is sewn from roughly tanned bull hide in large stitches using sinew threads. Used for transporting kumys and milk. Liquid and dairy products preserve well in this bag. It is tightly closed using two tylba wooden sticks and is tied to a saddle using leather straps. All items needed for preparing and ritual drinking of kumys are considered to be sacred.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Nov 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: E352229-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 25.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 24 cm