For tobacco. Leather with 2 pockets, red stained skin edging and cotton cloth lining. Sinew braid with remnants of red and blue wool inserts attached at top. Old sticker indicates that specimin cost $.50.
Donor:
Ernest Moses
Collection place:
Kaguyak, Kodiak Island, Kodiak Island Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Kodiak district; Kaguyak
Culture or time period:
Alutiiq and Kodiak Eskimo
Collector:
Ernest Moses
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pouches
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 28 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 15-21009. Remarks: See: Notes on Koniag Material Culture, R.F. Heizer; Anthro Papers, Univ. Alaska, vol. I, no. 1, (p. 19 and p. 24, pl. 3b) Old sticker indicates spec cost $.50.