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Museum number:
2-3890
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020003890
Alternate number:
x-36 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Object count:
1
Description:
Tubular box of enlaced birch bark with a lid and bottom made of wood. Thong loop in lid. Used to keep ashes of fungi in. The ashes are mingled with their tobacco.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Pastolik, Wade Hampton Borough, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Pastolik
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Leather and Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
The ashes are mingled with their tobacco.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 12 centimeters
Comment:
Second Orig. No.: Neumann 489.