Needle case

Museum number:
2-1623
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Made of wingbone of large waterfowl. Incised and darkened encircling bands and circles with dots. Wood stoppers in shape of fish head and tail.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon to Kuskokwim, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon to Kuskokwim
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Needle cases
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 15 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: Centennial Exposition, May 27-Sept. 30, 1967, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Loans:
S1966-1967 #89: University of Alaska, Fairbanks (April 17, 1967–October 2, 1967) and S1990-1991 #23: Blackhawk Museums (March 20, 1991–August 16, 1994)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1623, described as Made of wingbone of large waterfowl. Incised and darkened encircling bands and circles with dots. Wood stoppers in shape of fish head and tail.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1623, described as Made of wingbone of large waterfowl. Incised and darkened encircling bands and circles with dots. Wood stoppers in shape of fish head and tail.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1623, described as Made of wingbone of large waterfowl. Incised and darkened encircling bands and circles with dots. Wood stoppers in shape of fish head and tail.

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