Kigiktauik, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
Accession Date:
1 Nov 1878
Notes:
This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
From card: "Unaleet name e, lukh, che, tuk Mahlemut name Khlo, go, wick"
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=539 , retrieved 10-26-2021; see web page for additional information: Grass bag, Yup'ik. A woven burden basket (issran) like this was used with a back strap and wooden chest yoke for gathering plant foods and grasses on the tundra. It has woven “eyes” along the rim. Strong taperrnaq, or seashore grass, was used for weaving baskets. "They bring it out, issran, we put our food in here, the grass, greens. All kinds of greens we put them in here, put our food in here, until it's very, very full… It's very heavy, very heavy." -Neva Rivers, 2002
