Figure
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1884
name: label: Collector
content: William J. Fisher
label: Donor Name
content: William J. Fisher
notes: label: Notes
content: See Fisher's list in accession record, under # 24, where Fisher identifies this object as used by shamans, and has a long description of its use.
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=173, retrieved 9-3-2012: Figure, Alutiiq (Sugpiaq), Koniag. suaruaq "doll" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Kodiak Island dialect) Also called: shaman's figure
label: Notes
content: Reference: Crowell, Aron. “Postcontact Koniag Ceremonialism on Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula: Evidence from the Fisher Collection.” Arctic Anthropology 29, no. 1 (1992): 18–37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40316240. Copy of this article is attached to accession record.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Feb 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kodiak Island, Kodiak Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: 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: 015687
label: USNM Number
content: E74719-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 73 cm