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 570 3rd Ave # 219
Bethel, AK 99559
(907) 543-1541
 625 C Street
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907)929-9200
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Qasgiruaq Qasgi
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Qasgiruaq/Qasgi model from the Kuskokwim. |
G. B. Gordon, 1907, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology NA1522 |
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Courtesy, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, L2251, Dr. Leuman M. Waugh, 1935
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Ik'atak (Julia K. Paul), wearing a beaded head dress, accompanied by Asgiilleq and Nagyuk modeling dance headdresses topped with caribou throat hair, Kipnuk.
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Nacarrluk Dance Head Dress
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Anchorage Municipal Acquisition Fund, Anchorage Museum 1970.090.002 |
Dance headdress worn by young girls to keep their caarrluk (dust and scent) from injuring others.
Frank Andrew said: "Girls always wore those beaded hats, even though they weren't dancing. Their hair never flew around because those people were never careless, letting their hair get everywhere." |
Nacarrluk Dance headdress
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Dance headdress for special occasions, heavy with valuable trade beads.
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 2-6796 |
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Manumik Chest decoration
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Chest decoration made of beads, box covers, and pieces of an oil lamp, worn by a woman over her parka and around her neck during dances. |
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J. A. Jacobsen, 1882, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin IVA5390 |
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Holding up the Nushagak ornament, Catherine Moore commented: "I'm looking at a manumik, my goodness. These were given to older girls. I used to hold one and rub my hands on it, wishing I could own one like it."
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Cauyaq Drum
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Cauyaq/Drum with bird head handle, used for dancing.
Frank Andrew explained: "When they were not using drums, they removed the walrus stomach covers and stored the rims in caches. Drums were handled with care."
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 2 4588 |
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Paplu Drum Handle
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Paplu/Drum handle shaped like a fish, from Nushagak.
Collector J. A. Jacobsen wrote that a shaman might have used the small stick fastened to the handle to call his helping spirits and ask for their assistance. |
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1882, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin IVA4549 |
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Wassilie Berlin demonstrating the drum handle's use at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, 1997.
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Ferdinand Drebert, Courtesy, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution L2710
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Dancers in a Bethel qasgi in the 1930s.
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