Pouch

Museum number:
2-4528
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-674 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Salmon skin, scale-side in; decorated (one side) with skin and gut appliqued designs, embroidered with reindeer hair and red yarn. Lozenge trim in middle to cover dorsalfin hole. Trimmed with scraped fishskin fringe and thin leather band around mouth. Sewn with sinew thread (whipstitch). Made with salmon skin, gut, sinew, leather (sealskin?), reindeer hair, and red yarn.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pouches
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Used to store women's sewing objects.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 28 centimeters and length 26 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-4528, described as Salmon skin, scale-side in; decorated (one side) with skin and gut appliqued designs, embroidered with reindeer hair and red yarn. Lozenge trim in middle to cover dorsalfin hole. Trimmed with scraped fishskin fringe and thin leather band around mouth. Sewn with sinew thread (whipstitch). Made with salmon skin, gut, sinew, leather (sealskin?), reindeer hair, and red yarn.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-4528, described as Salmon skin, scale-side in; decorated (one side) with skin and gut appliqued designs, embroidered with reindeer hair and red yarn. Lozenge trim in middle to cover dorsalfin hole. Trimmed with scraped fishskin fringe and thin leather band around mouth. Sewn with sinew thread (whipstitch). Made with salmon skin, gut, sinew, leather (sealskin?), reindeer hair, and red yarn.

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