Bag

Museum number:
2-4290
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-436 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Made of seal gut, ornamented with red and black yarn and white feathers. Gut strips sewn together with waterproof stitches; opening of the same material. A very thin and narrow strip of fish skin, dyed red and blue, sewn into the seam to assume a better water tightness. The seams are also decorated with white down.
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:
Cotton (textile), Skin (collagenous material), and Wool (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
for storage
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
depth 36 centimeters and width 35 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-4290, described as Made of seal gut, ornamented with red and black yarn and white feathers. Gut strips sewn together with waterproof stitches; opening of the same material. A very thin and narrow strip of fish skin, dyed red and blue, sewn into the seam to assume a better water tightness. The seams are also decorated with white down.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-4290, described as Made of seal gut, ornamented with red and black yarn and white feathers. Gut strips sewn together with waterproof stitches; opening of the same material. A very thin and narrow strip of fish skin, dyed red and blue, sewn into the seam to assume a better water tightness. The seams are also decorated with white down.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-4290, described as Made of seal gut, ornamented with red and black yarn and white feathers. Gut strips sewn together with waterproof stitches; opening of the same material. A very thin and narrow strip of fish skin, dyed red and blue, sewn into the seam to assume a better water tightness. The seams are also decorated with white down.

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