Necklace (U-A- Mich-Kat)
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: From card: "Worn by women." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Necklace (U-a-mich-kat). - Made of glass beads of various colors and sizes strung on sinew. Worn by women. Nushagagmut Eskimo, Nushagak River, Bristol Bay. Length, 24 ins. Width, 2 ins. Alaska, 1882. Collected by Wm. J. Fisher." Illus. Fig. 45, p. 50 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: E72470 is Illus. Fig. 192, p. 203 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. It is identified there as part of a "full set of bead ornaments worn by the Ugashak [Ugashik] belles" that William Fisher purchased in 1881. This set also included E72464, E72465, E72466, and E72467.
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=152, retrieved 8-28-2012: Necklace, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag; Ugashik, Alaska Peninsula. uyamillquaq "necklace" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Alaska Peninsula dialect) On ceremonial occasions Sugpiaq women adorned themselves with heavy necklaces and other beads. According to Heinrich Holmberg's account from 1851, "At the turn of this century, the lips and ear jewelry of a rich Koniag [Kodiak Island Sugpiaq] woman or an adorned dandy might have weighed a whole pound."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska Peninsula / Bristol Bay / Ugashik River, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik, Nushagagmiut (?)
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: E72467-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 23 cm