Respirator

Museum number:
2-6993
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.128
Description:
Willow or spruce shavings bound with a root; oblong; wood rod to grasp in teeth tucked beneath binding.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
For sweatbath.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 15.2 centimeters
Comment:
Published: Dorothy Jean Ray, The Eskimo of St. Michael and Vicinity as Related by H.M.W. Edmonds, ill. p. 128 top plate. Remarks: cf. Nelson p. 288 and fig. 96.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Respirator, accession number 2-6993, described as Willow or spruce shavings bound with a root; oblong; wood rod to grasp in teeth tucked beneath binding.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Respirator, accession number 2-6993, described as Willow or spruce shavings bound with a root; oblong; wood rod to grasp in teeth tucked beneath binding.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Respirator, accession number 2-6993, described as Willow or spruce shavings bound with a root; oblong; wood rod to grasp in teeth tucked beneath binding.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Respirator, accession number 2-6993, described as Willow or spruce shavings bound with a root; oblong; wood rod to grasp in teeth tucked beneath binding.

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