Wooden Ladle
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: "Bowl 16.5 x 19 cm. diam. End of handle slightly ornamented. "Charok". A bowl for drinking kumys."
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: Ladle. Udja, uhayakh.19th century, second half. Birch. Dimensional, contoured carving, hollowing. L.: 68. Bowl: D.: 19, depth: 16.5. The bowl of the ladle is round. The handle is slightly curved, profiled at the end and has a carved knob that ends in small dentils. Every year in the end of June the Sakha celebrate the Ysyakh traditional festival. It begins with ceremonial drinking of kumys. At the festival, kumys is considered to be not just a drink, but a priceless gift from the upper deities, of which Djesegey horse is considered to be the progenitor of all the Sakha. All items needed for preparing and ritual drinking of kumys are considered to be sacred.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E352244-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spoon
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 68 cm