Needle
- Museum number:
- 2-4130
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004130
- Alternate number:
- x-276 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Netting needle, made of ivory.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Needles (piercing tools)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Used to mend broken meshes in net.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 21.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-