Needle case

Museum number:
2-1648
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Alternate number:
2-1215 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Made from wingbone of large waterfowl, wood. Incised and darkened encircling bands and cross-hatching. Fish head shaped wood stopper (other stopper missing).
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: has stopper and is too large
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 14.3 centimeters
Comment:
Second Orig. No.: 2-1648.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1648, described as Made from wingbone of large waterfowl, wood. Incised and darkened encircling bands and cross-hatching. Fish head shaped wood stopper (other stopper missing).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1648, described as Made from wingbone of large waterfowl, wood. Incised and darkened encircling bands and cross-hatching. Fish head shaped wood stopper (other stopper missing).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1648, described as Made from wingbone of large waterfowl, wood. Incised and darkened encircling bands and cross-hatching. Fish head shaped wood stopper (other stopper missing).

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