Model Boat, Umiak
Item number E1130-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.
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See Collins boat MS. p. 795 and Processing Lab Accession file for additional information on this boat. Originally catalogued as "Kolosh", i.e. Tlingit. Boat model is illustrated p.78 in Rhees, William Jones. 1880. Visitor's guide to the Smithsonian Institution and National Museum, Washington, D.C., Part 3 [Washington]: Judd & Detweiler, Printers and Publishers. https://books.google.com/books?id=L5ZJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false Illus. Fig. 145, p. 152 in Crowell, Aron, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar. 2001. Looking both ways: heritage and identity of the Alutiiq people. Fairbanks, Alaska: University of Alaska Press. Identified there as an Angyak model, Kodiak Island, by Aron Crowell, i.e. Sugpiak/Alutiiq (Pacific Yup'ik). "The men in this model of a small angyaq wear three kinds of headgear: seal hunting helmets, spruce root hats with tall tops that indicated wealth, and bentwood hunting hats in the form of open-topped cones with slanting brims, a style from the Alaska Peninsula. Sprays of colored yarn depict water thrown back from the surging bow of the boat."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=2, retrieved 8-29-2012: Umiak model, Sugpiaq (Alutiiq), Koniag; Kodiak Island, Alaska. angyaq "open skin boat" - Language: Koniag Sugpiaq (Kodiak Island dialect). Also called: baidar [from Russian word for boat].Illus. Fig. 10.9, p. 223 in Luukkanen, Harri, Fitzhugh, William W., and Evguenia Anichtchenko. 2020. The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia. Washington DC: Smithsonian Scholarly Press.
Item History
- Made in Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA ?
- Collected by Col. Charles S. Bulkley in Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA ? during 1865
- Received from Accession Number Unknown
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- Name
- Model Boat, Umiak
- Identification Number
- E1130-0
- Type of Item
- umiak model
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA ?
- Collected in
- Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA ?
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit ?, Eskimo, Alutiiq and Koniag ?
- Field Collector
- Col. Charles S. Bulkley
- Received from
- Accession Number Unknown
When
- Collection Date
- during 1865
Other
- Accession Number
- 000000
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