Workbag

Museum number:
2-6327
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020006327
Alternate number:
X-2520 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Leather pocket, gut fur-lined flap with applique work on inside, thong ties. Object measured when opened. Indigenous name for object "imgo jutak.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
St. Michael, St. Michael Island, Nome Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; St. Michael
Culture or time period:
Malemiut Eskimo and North Igylak
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection date:
1898
Materials:
Fur (hair material) and Quill (spine material)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
So-called "housewife," i.e. little case for sewing materials. Common throughout the western Arctic for storing materials for sewing and mending.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 42 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: imgo jutak. Second Orig No.: Neumann 116. References: Cf. Neumann's catalogue #116; Nelson Pl. XLV and text pp. 104-05.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Workbag, accession number 2-6327, described as Leather pocket, gut fur-lined flap with applique work on inside, thong ties. Object measured when opened. Indigenous name for object "imgo jutak.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Workbag, accession number 2-6327, described as Leather pocket, gut fur-lined flap with applique work on inside, thong ties. Object measured when opened. Indigenous name for object "imgo jutak.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Workbag, accession number 2-6327, described as Leather pocket, gut fur-lined flap with applique work on inside, thong ties. Object measured when opened. Indigenous name for object "imgo jutak.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Workbag, accession number 2-6327, described as Leather pocket, gut fur-lined flap with applique work on inside, thong ties. Object measured when opened. Indigenous name for object "imgo jutak.

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