Needle case

Museum number:
2-7061
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
37 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.128
Description:
Made of ivory and bone. Incised and darkened chevrons, circles with dots. Inset wood plug at one end, wood fishtail plug other end.
Donor:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Harry Marcus Weston Edmonds
Collection date:
1889-1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Needle cases
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
16 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 2-7061, described as Made of ivory and bone. Incised and darkened chevrons, circles with dots. Inset wood plug at one end, wood fishtail plug other end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-7061, described as Made of ivory and bone. Incised and darkened chevrons, circles with dots. Inset wood plug at one end, wood fishtail plug other end.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-7061, described as Made of ivory and bone. Incised and darkened chevrons, circles with dots. Inset wood plug at one end, wood fishtail plug other end.

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