Needle case

Museum number:
2-65813
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020065813
Accession number:
Acc.3680
Description:
Ivory tube broadened by a ridge on each side at one end with a small knob on each side, incised design. Wooden plug blocks rounded end.
Donor:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Needle cases
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 10 centimeters
Comment:
References: Nelson, Edward William, The Eskimo about Bering Strait, 18th Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, p. 103 and Plate XLIV, figure 32.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-65813, described as Ivory tube broadened by a ridge on each side at one end with a small knob on each side, incised design. Wooden plug blocks rounded end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-65813, described as Ivory tube broadened by a ridge on each side at one end with a small knob on each side, incised design. Wooden plug blocks rounded end.

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