Dish Or Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Turner
label: Collector
content: Nelson
label: Collector
content: Johnson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. XXXII-3, P. 71. OVAL WOODEN DISH, WITH BENT VERTICAL SIDES A SEPARATE PIECE FITTED ONTO THE SLIGHTLY CONCAVE BOTTOM. SIDES & INSIDE RIM OF BOTTOM PAINTED RED. INSIDE OF BOTTOM DECORATED WITH A PAINTING IN BLACK OF A MYTHOLOGICAL INSECT-LIKE FIGURE AND SMALL SEALS AND SEA LIONS ALONG THE EDGES. LOANED TO THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 6/22/77. RETURNED 12/1/77. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL.15, P.15. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." Bentwood. USIA Inua catalogue identifies: "... hole through the palm of the hand ... symbolizes the game that the tunghat allow to escape through the hole in the skyworld for the consumption of humans. The legendary creature in the bowl has pierced hands and is shown controlling both seals and walrus." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "DISHES(4).---CARVED FROM WOOD IN OBLONG SHAPE, GENERALLY WITH SOME ANIMAL PAINTED IN THE CENTER. IN ONE CASE THERE IS A PROJECTION IN REPRESENTATION OF A HUMAN FACE. ESKIMO OF ALASKA. 30,772, 38,678, 38,685, AND 127,655. COLLECTED BY TURNER, NELSON, AND JOHNSON."
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=89 , retrieved 10-24-2018; see web page for additional information: Bowl, Yup'ik. "Alngagnqerrluteng. Ayuqenrilngurneng alngangqetuut. Ilait kanaggun nayiruaneng. Nutaraullermegni wani qaralingqerraqluteng nayiruameng. Augayui. Augaqainauvkenateng eruyuilameng. (They had symbols. They always have different symbols. Some had ringed seals on the bottom - when they were new, they had ringed seal designs. They never came off. They couldn't come off, because the bowls weren't washed.)" Neva Rivers, 2002 The painting on this Yupik bowl from the village of Nulukhtulogumut on Nelson Island may represent a controller spirit. It hands have holes, allowing the passage of sea mammals to the human world. The being is flanked by walruses and seals. Food bowls were wiped clean after eating, but not washed.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nulukhtulogumut, Yukon & Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E38685-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 28.5 cm
label: Width
content: 18 cm