With lid. Twined spruce root with false embroidery designs in yellow grass stems and in red and yellow-brown wool yarn. (a) Quiver, cylinder with bulge at top. (b) Lid with rattling material inside.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Chugach and Kodiak Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
October 1986
Materials:
Wood (plant material) and Yarn
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Quivers and Twined weaving
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Novelty based on traditional Kodiak or Chugach quiver.
Second original number is B609. References: Birket-Smith, Chugach Eskimo and Early Collections from the Pacific Eskimo. Molly Lee, "Pacific Eskimo Spruce Root Basketry" in American Indian Art magazine, Spring 1981.
Loans:
S2000-2001 #3: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (August 15, 2000–October 31, 2004)