Bag, made of twisted and plaited plastic shopping bags. Rectangular envelope shape with loop handles at each end. Commercial zipper closure, cloth lining. (Note: raw material stored inside bag).
Donor:
Roy Iutzi-Mitchell
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Maker or artist:
Lucy Whitman [Yupik]
Collector:
Roy Iutzi-Mitchell
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers) and Plaited weaving
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
September 13, 1994
Context of use:
Fish bag, "made from plastic..., the kind merchants use to pack things you have purchased in stores.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
37 centimeters and height 26 centimeters
Comment:
Dr. Nelson Graburn arranged for the former grad student (Iutzi-Mitchell) to purchase an Alaskan Inuit (Eskimo) fish bag made from plastic (pliofilm or such material)...The collector paid the Eskimo lady (Luch Whiteman) $135. for this bag and 2-71662." * Luch Whiteman is a compound typo for Lucy Whitman. Frank Norick wrote her name as Luch Whitman, and Joan Knudsen later transformed this name to Luch Whiteman. (fide Ira Jacknis, 2008-05-02).