Frames For Game Of Requests 2
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Nov 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "THIS IS KIND OF WAND USED BY ALL THE NATIVES FROM THE YUKON TO UNAKLEET DURING THE WINTER. BEFORE THEIR EGRUSKAS COMMENCE ONE OF THESE IS MADE AND PLACED ON TOP OF THE CASHIME AND REMAINING THERE EVERY DAY UNTIL THE FROST. DURING THE EVENING IT IS MADE USE OF AS FOLLOWS: A NATIVE MAN OR WOMAN WISHING A PRESENT AT THE COMING FEAST, GOES TO A THIRD PERSON AND TELLS HIM WHAT IS WANTED, AND OF WHOM, UPON WHICH DURING THE EVENING THE MESSENGER GOES TO THE PERSON DESIGNATED AND MAKES KNOWN THE WANTS, AND NAMES THE PERSON, AFTER HAVING SWUNG THE PENDANT BALLS TOWARDS THE PERSON AND AT THE SAME TIME HE IS DOING THIS. AFTER THIS CEREMONY IS PERFORMED, HE SITS DOWN AND THE HOST SOON THINKS OVER HIS WANTS, AND NAMES THEM, WHEN THE MESSENGER RETURNS AND REPEATS THE SAME CEREMONY-TO THE SENDER, NAMING THE WISHES OF THE PERSON JUST ASKED FOR A PRESENT. IN THIS MANNER THE ENTIRE VILLAGE MAKES KNOWN ITS WANTS, AND AT THE EGRUSKA THE WAND IS PLACED IN A CONSPICUOUS PLACE IN THE CASHIME, THE PRESENTS ARE DISTRIBUTED AND A DANCE ENSUES AFTER THE WAND IS DISCARDED. THE WAND IS MUCH RESPECTED DURING ITS USE AND NO ONE REFUSES TO SUBMIT TO THE REQUESTS MADE UNLESS HE WISHES TO BECOME A." CONT. SEE CARD.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jun 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pastolik / Unalakleet, Yukon River, Mouth / Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Unalakleet
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 78A00080
label: USNM Number
content: E33804-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Game