Case

Museum number:
2-546a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020546a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
a) Needle, waterfowl wing bone. Incised and darkened dots, bands, and lines. Missing part of one end; b) Fish-tail shaped stopper, blue-stained wood.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon to Kuskokwim, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon to Kuskokwim
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Needle cases
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Not snuff tube, as original catalogued, because has stopper (one stopper missing)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
a)— length 7.3 centimeters and b)— length 2.3 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 2-546a,b, described as a) Needle, waterfowl wing bone. Incised and darkened dots, bands, and lines. Missing part of one end; b) Fish-tail shaped stopper, blue-stained wood.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 2-546a,b, described as a) Needle, waterfowl wing bone. Incised and darkened dots, bands, and lines. Missing part of one end; b) Fish-tail shaped stopper, blue-stained wood.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 2-546a,b, described as a) Needle, waterfowl wing bone. Incised and darkened dots, bands, and lines. Missing part of one end; b) Fish-tail shaped stopper, blue-stained wood.

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