Bag

Museum number:
2-5802
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005802
Alternate number:
x-892 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Skin and cloth. Braided sinew drawstring with tassels; elaborate thread embroidery; multicolored; fur trim. Long sinew string to carry the bag (like a European woman's shoulder pouch); elaborately embroidered on both sides on a black dyed leather, quillwork in geometric motifs (white, red, blue); fringed with fur. Black dye was colored with blood and molybdenite.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Aleutian Islands
Culture or time period:
Aleut
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Fur (hair material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements and 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
to carry
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 20 centimeters and depth 22 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5802, described as Skin and cloth. Braided sinew drawstring with tassels; elaborate thread embroidery; multicolored; fur trim. Long sinew string to carry the bag (like a European woman's shoulder pouch); elaborately embroidered on both sides on a black dyed leather, quillwork in geometric motifs (white, red, blue); fringed with fur. Black dye was colored with blood and molybdenite.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5802, described as Skin and cloth. Braided sinew drawstring with tassels; elaborate thread embroidery; multicolored; fur trim. Long sinew string to carry the bag (like a European woman's shoulder pouch); elaborately embroidered on both sides on a black dyed leather, quillwork in geometric motifs (white, red, blue); fringed with fur. Black dye was colored with blood and molybdenite.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5802, described as Skin and cloth. Braided sinew drawstring with tassels; elaborate thread embroidery; multicolored; fur trim. Long sinew string to carry the bag (like a European woman's shoulder pouch); elaborately embroidered on both sides on a black dyed leather, quillwork in geometric motifs (white, red, blue); fringed with fur. Black dye was colored with blood and molybdenite.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5802, described as Skin and cloth. Braided sinew drawstring with tassels; elaborate thread embroidery; multicolored; fur trim. Long sinew string to carry the bag (like a European woman's shoulder pouch); elaborately embroidered on both sides on a black dyed leather, quillwork in geometric motifs (white, red, blue); fringed with fur. Black dye was colored with blood and molybdenite.

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