Skin bag; round pouch construction. Bottom and mouth of scraped depilitated deerskin, sides of vertical panels of fishskin and white-tanned depilitated deerskin. Decoration consists of small elongate lozenges of red and bleached leather with fur trim and band of bleached leather around neck of bag. Two leather straps sewn on at mouth. Sinew thread used throughout. Overcast and running stitches. Made with salmon skins from belly and back, deerskin, gut, sinew thread, and fur.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo and Ingalik
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Skin (collagenous material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Used for storage.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 57 centimeters and length 69 centimeters
Comment:
References: Osgood, C., 1940, pp. 155-156; Nelson, E.W., 1899, pp. 43-44.