Box

Museum number:
2-1496a,b
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Carved wooden storage box (ceremonial?); elongated teardrop shape; relief of a swimming mythological animal on cover; painted red and black (worn); black painted figures of man with bow and arow and 2 killed deer on inside of cover; rawhide thong and fastenings.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers) and Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Storage.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 18.2 centimeters and length 41.4 centimeters
Loans:
S1945-1946 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (March 11, 1946–October 28, 1955)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 3 titled Box, accession number 2-1496a,b, described as Carved wooden storage box (ceremonial?); elongated teardrop shape; relief of a swimming mythological animal on cover; painted red and black (worn); black painted figures of man with bow and arow and 2 killed deer on inside of cover; rawhide thong and fastenings.Hearst Museum object 2 of 3 titled Box, accession number 2-1496a,b, described as Carved wooden storage box (ceremonial?); elongated teardrop shape; relief of a swimming mythological animal on cover; painted red and black (worn); black painted figures of man with bow and arow and 2 killed deer on inside of cover; rawhide thong and fastenings.Hearst Museum object 3 of 3 titled Box, accession number 2-1496a,b, described as Carved wooden storage box (ceremonial?); elongated teardrop shape; relief of a swimming mythological animal on cover; painted red and black (worn); black painted figures of man with bow and arow and 2 killed deer on inside of cover; rawhide thong and fastenings.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-1496a,b, described as Carved wooden storage box (ceremonial?); elongated teardrop shape; relief of a swimming mythological animal on cover; painted red and black (worn); black painted figures of man with bow and arow and 2 killed deer on inside of cover; rawhide thong and fastenings.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-1496a,b, described as Carved wooden storage box (ceremonial?); elongated teardrop shape; relief of a swimming mythological animal on cover; painted red and black (worn); black painted figures of man with bow and arow and 2 killed deer on inside of cover; rawhide thong and fastenings.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-1496a,b, described as Carved wooden storage box (ceremonial?); elongated teardrop shape; relief of a swimming mythological animal on cover; painted red and black (worn); black painted figures of man with bow and arow and 2 killed deer on inside of cover; rawhide thong and fastenings.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Box, accession number 2-1496a,b, described as Carved wooden storage box (ceremonial?); elongated teardrop shape; relief of a swimming mythological animal on cover; painted red and black (worn); black painted figures of man with bow and arow and 2 killed deer on inside of cover; rawhide thong and fastenings.

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