Research Catalog

Title

Ciuliamta akluit/Things of our ancestors : Yup'ik elders explore the Jacobsen Collection at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin / translated by Marie Meade ; edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan.

Publication

• Seattle : University of Washington Press, in association with Calista Elders Council, Bethel, Alaska, 2005.
• ©2005

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Details

Additional Authors

• Meade, Marie
• Fienup-Riordan, Ann
• Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, host institution.
• Calista Elders Council, copyright holder.
• University of Washington Press, publisher.

Description

xxvi, 420 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• "In the 1880s, the Norwegian-born traveler Johan Adrian Jacobsen spent a year in Alaska and amassed an unprecedented collection of Yup'ik material culture that eventually made its way to Germany's most prominent ethnographic museum. More than a century later, a delegation of Yup'ik elders and educators from Bethel, Alaska, joined cultural anthropologists and museum professionals at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin to examine and interpret Jacobsen's collection, one of the world's largest and most impressive Yup'ik collections."
• "Things of Our Ancestors is a record of this unusual meeting of minds and cultures. Evoking the stories and experiences that the cultural artifacts embody, the Yup'ik elders examine and discuss these objects made by their ancestors, reclaiming knowledge on the verge of being lost. For this Yup'ik-English bilingual book, anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan has chosen stories and accounts of the Berlin exchange that best describe the collection and the visit. The narrative is accompanied by sixty-six photographs of this unprecedented episode of cultural revival." "This book will prove a treasure for Yup'ik readers, linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, and historians, and will hold much interest for anyone concerned with Native American oral tradition."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

• Things of our ancestors
• Yup'ik elders explore the Jacobsen Collection at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin

Subject

• Jacobsen, Johan Adrian, 1853-1947 > Travel > Alaska
• Jacobsen, Johan Adrian, 1853-1947 > Ethnological collections
• Jacobsen, Johan Adrian, 1853-1947
• Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
• Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
• Berlin > Ethnologisches Museum Berlin
• Yupik Eskimos > Material culture
• Yupik Eskimos > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting > Germany
• Yupik Eskimos > Antiquities > Collection and preservation > Germany
• Older Yupik Eskimos > Interviews
• Older Yupik Eskimos
• Anthropology > Private collections
• Travel
• Yupik Eskimos > Material culture
• Sachkultur
• Yupik
• Materiële cultuur
• Alaska
• Germany
• Yupik

Genre/Form

Interviews

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-420).

Contents

First day: Tools for ocean hunting: Small gaff -- Toggling harpoon point -- Float -- Paddle -- Model kayak -- Second day: Bows and arrows for hunting and for war: Bows -- Arrows -- Arrows with stone points -- Third day: More tools for hunting and fishing: Spear throwers -- Bird or rabbit spear point -- Extraordinary creatures encountered in the mountains -- King-salmon gill net -- Small-mesh gill net -- Small fishtrap -- Net gauges and shuttles -- Fourth day: Our things made out of wood: Chewing tobacco and snuff boxes -- Drum -- Bags and containers -- Qupurruyuli -- Bowl -- Man's bowl -- Fifth day: Containers -- Storage bag -- Woven grass bag -- Two squirrels -- Sixth day: Tools for working on things: Sharpening stone -- Sledgehammer -- Snow shovel -- Axe -- Woman's knife -- Double-edged knife -- Seventh day: Household tools: Pestle -- Lamps -- Cutting board -- Snuff tobacco -- Dipper -- Fire starters -- Eighth day: Personal adornment and human figures: Combs -- Labrets -- Earrings -- Dolls and human figures -- Ninth day: Women's sewing tools and belts and men's hats: Needle cases -- Buttons, bag fasteners, thimbles and needles -- Belts -- Bentwood hats and visors -- Wooden eyeshades -- Tenth day: Dance regalia: Dance hats -- Gloves -- Dance headdresses -- Eleventh day: Singing and dancing with masks: Drum handle and shaman drum -- Our ancestors were truly religious -- Legendary seal person wearing a gut rain parka -- Common loons -- Ircenrraq mask -- Dance fans -- Pretend raven -- Half-woman -- Twelfth day: Toys and games of strength and skill: Balls and round pucks -- Darts -- Turn to me -- Story knife -- Model qasgi -- Toy dolls -- Thirteenth day: Clothing: Bird-skin parka -- Waterproof skin boots -- Fourteenth day: Designs of the sky and annual ceremonies: Circular calendar -- Sun, moon, and stars -- Arguing over the name for the new moon -- Different ceremonies that took place from Fall to Spring -- Dance sticks -- Fifteenth day: I have hope that they gain more faith and knowledge of who they are -- Yup'ik transcription and translation -- References.

ISBN

• 0295984716
• 9780295984711

LCCN

2004020598

OCLC

• ocm56421943
• 56421943
• SCSB-9517809

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library