Pouch

Museum number:
2-23
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020000023
Accession number:
Acc.101
Description:
Oval bottom, vertical sides made entirely of fishskin. Bottom flesh-side out; side scale-out. 4 decorated panels, red, with elongate, linear and zigzag white appliques. White deer hair sewn along seams. Horizontal decorative panel around neck repeats motifs. Made with salmon skin, caribou hair, alder dye, and sinew thread.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo and Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
unknown
Taxon:
Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pouches
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
Used for storing food or clothing. Very similar to 2-6516 and 2-6517.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 56 centimeters and width 30 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-23, described as Oval bottom, vertical sides made entirely of fishskin. Bottom flesh-side out; side scale-out. 4 decorated panels, red, with elongate, linear and zigzag white appliques. White deer hair sewn along seams. Horizontal decorative panel around neck repeats motifs. Made with salmon skin, caribou hair, alder dye, and sinew thread.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-23, described as Oval bottom, vertical sides made entirely of fishskin. Bottom flesh-side out; side scale-out. 4 decorated panels, red, with elongate, linear and zigzag white appliques. White deer hair sewn along seams. Horizontal decorative panel around neck repeats motifs. Made with salmon skin, caribou hair, alder dye, and sinew thread.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-23, described as Oval bottom, vertical sides made entirely of fishskin. Bottom flesh-side out; side scale-out. 4 decorated panels, red, with elongate, linear and zigzag white appliques. White deer hair sewn along seams. Horizontal decorative panel around neck repeats motifs. Made with salmon skin, caribou hair, alder dye, and sinew thread.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-23, described as Oval bottom, vertical sides made entirely of fishskin. Bottom flesh-side out; side scale-out. 4 decorated panels, red, with elongate, linear and zigzag white appliques. White deer hair sewn along seams. Horizontal decorative panel around neck repeats motifs. Made with salmon skin, caribou hair, alder dye, and sinew thread.

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