Ivory bead bracelets on rawhide. 2 bracelets of tubular beads, bracelets are intertwined.
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:
Bracelets (jewelry) and Twined weaving
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Nelson, p. 58: "The men also use bracelets made of a sealskin cord on which is strung one or more large beads of ivory or other substance. They are generally used while at sea for rolling under the end of the waterproof skin frock.