Grass Pad Respirator
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: BASKETRY OBJECT.
label: Notes
content: This object is a respirator: a basketry exterior and stuffed with grass. Identified by comparison to similar object E38850. E38850 is published in Fig. 77, p. 53 in Rowley, Susan D. M., William W. Fitzhugh, and Susan A. Kaplan. 1988. Inua: spirit world of the Bering Sea Eskimo. Washington, D.C.: Dept. of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History. It is identified there: "After ceremonies, feasts and to relax, men took steambaths. The temperature achieved in these steambaths were so high that people had to wear grass respirators to avoid scalding their throats and lungs."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET14615-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Respirator