Earrings

Museum number:
2-6797a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21026797a@2cb
Alternate number:
x-2990 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Bead earrings worn by women. Blue, white, red, amber beads and black cylindrical beads.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Cook Inlet, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Cook Inlet
Culture or time period:
Kenai Eskimo
Collector:
W. J. Fisher
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Earrings (jewelry)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
used by women
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
15.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 2-6797a,b, described as Bead earrings worn by women. Blue, white, red, amber beads and black cylindrical beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 2-6797a,b, described as Bead earrings worn by women. Blue, white, red, amber beads and black cylindrical beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 2-6797a,b, described as Bead earrings worn by women. Blue, white, red, amber beads and black cylindrical beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 2-6797a,b, described as Bead earrings worn by women. Blue, white, red, amber beads and black cylindrical beads.

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