Gold dust bag; thin hide or leather w/glass “seedbead” ornamentation and cotton cloth strips at top. Made by Eskimo for use by gold miners. According to Alaskan Eskimo consultant Ronald L. Senungetuk (July 1987): “This is also a coin bag (ighungquaq in Nome area means imitation rectum) which could hold $1000.00 worth of silver dollars”.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska Historic (Alaskan Eskimo Manufacture)
Culture or time period:
Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Materials:
Glass (material) and Skin (collagenous material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Loans:
S1928-1929 #1: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (May 1929–August 1945)