Tobacco pouch

Museum number:
2-2977
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
39 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.26
Description:
Made of walrus hide, reindeer back bound and ornamented with fawn skin.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Northwestern Territories; Mackenzie River; Cape Bathurst
Culture or time period:
Kugmallit Eskimo
Collector:
H. H. Cushing
Collection date:
1901
Taxon:
Odobenus rosmarus
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Tobacco pouches
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
December 16, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tobacco pouch, accession number 2-2977, described as Made of walrus hide, reindeer back bound and ornamented with fawn skin.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tobacco pouch, accession number 2-2977, described as Made of walrus hide, reindeer back bound and ornamented with fawn skin.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tobacco pouch, accession number 2-2977, described as Made of walrus hide, reindeer back bound and ornamented with fawn skin.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tobacco pouch, accession number 2-2977, described as Made of walrus hide, reindeer back bound and ornamented with fawn skin.

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