Object Details
- Donor Name
- Lucien M. Turner
- E35921 - 35926 are Illus. Fig. 115b, p. 107 in Black, Lydia. 2003. Aleut art = Unangam aguqaadangin. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers. They are identified there: "Human figurines from Attu with removable arms and weapons. Pegs at bottom of feet indicate that these figures were originally on a plate or a pedestal. Note minimal emphasis on genitalia and egg-shaped bodies." These figures are also described on p. 112: "The bodies are ovaloid, the legs ... crude appendages in a forklike shape. The arms are long tubes inserted into holes drilled in the shoulders, peg-like .... The position of the arms varies from figure to figure. One of the figures "holds" a long spear, also of tubular shape, in the right hand. Other figures, too, apparently held weapons which are now lost. The heads are crude ovaloids. Interestingly, the only parallel to this type of anthropomorphic sculptures on the North Pacific Rim appears to be found in the Evenk (Tungus) sculpture of the Sea of Okhotsk littoral and in Siberia in the Yenisei River valley. The similarity lies in style as well as in the pegged attachment of limbs and, in the particular case of the figurine holding a spear, in the manner in which the weapon itself and the way it is attached to the hand are represented."
- Record Last Modified
- 7 Jul 2021
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Accession Date
- 16 Dec 1879
- Accession Number
- 79A00065
- USNM Number
- E35923-0
- Object Type
- Figure
- Place
- Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States, North America
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8405903
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a3633da7-2b81-49b1-86d6-503dafb704f5
