Yoke
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. William H. Dall
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Coast Survey
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "...Small boomerang shaped mask [sic] that has a small face painted in the center - red...Inventoried 1977..."
label: Notes
content: Breast yoke. Carved wood yoke has inset caribou teeth; the image of the tattooed woman at the center served as a charm to protect the wearer...Illus. In BAE 18th AR, Pt. 1; Pl. lxxvi-14; P. 208 / Illus. (with 16252) In Nat. Mus. Rept. 1887, Fig. 2a,b, p. 256 / Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 5, Arctic, Pg. 213, Fig. 4... Loan: U.S.I.A. Inua Jun 24 1988. Loan returned Dec 28 1990."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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 https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=514 , retrieved 11-23-2021; see web page for additional information: Yoke, Yup'ik. A chest yoke was fastened to a burden basket or other heavy load that rode on a person's back, making it easier to carry. This red-painted yoke is carved with a woman's face, her tattoos visible at the corners of her mouth, and decorated with caribou teeth. When a yoke was not used a grass rope was tied across the chest instead, as Neva Rivers describes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Jan 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Nunivak Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 003195
label: USNM Number
content: E16251-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Yoke
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 51.5 cm