Pair Of Dance Fans
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 Sep 1902
name: label: Collector
content: Israel C. Russell
label: Donor Name
content: Israel C. Russell
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027. 2 of 2 on loan.
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=663 , retrieved 10-24-2021; see web page for additional information: Dance fans, Yup'ik. Hand-held fans accentuate the fluid movements of a dancer's arms. Men and women danced with them in the old winter ceremonies and use them today for festival performances. Women's traditional fans had carved and painted images of animals or spirits. This pair is carved with the smiling face of a man and the frowning face of a woman; the dots are stars in the night sky; and the four holes represent the cardinal directions.
label: Notes
content: The man's face fan has two white seed beads attached under the lower lip mimicking labrets.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Yukon River (Lower), 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: 039927
label: USNM Number
content: E217808-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dance Fan
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length - Object
content: 10.3 cm