Needle case

Museum number:
2-1647
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Made from wingbone of large waterfowl. Incised and darkened hunting scenes including people in "umiak." Inset wood stopper (other stopper missing).
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
Context of use:
Not snuff tube - too large and has stopper
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 14.3 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1647, described as Made from wingbone of large waterfowl. Incised and darkened hunting scenes including people in "umiak." Inset wood stopper (other stopper missing).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1647, described as Made from wingbone of large waterfowl. Incised and darkened hunting scenes including people in "umiak." Inset wood stopper (other stopper missing).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1647, described as Made from wingbone of large waterfowl. Incised and darkened hunting scenes including people in "umiak." Inset wood stopper (other stopper missing).

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