Fishskin bag; oval, pouch construction with vertical side-panels sewn to rounded bottom. Constructed entirely of salmon skin except decorative bands and scallops of scraped gut and hide, with white caribou hair sewn in. Sewn in with sinew in overcast and running stitch.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Russian Mission, Yukon River, Yukon
Verbatim coll. place:
; Russian Mission
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo and Ingalik
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
1894
Taxon:
Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bags (generic containers)
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Context of use:
Used to keep their furs in. May also have been used for the storage of dried fish.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 112 centimeters and width 84 centimeters
Comment:
References: Described in Osgood, C., 1940, pp. 155-156 & Nelson, E.W., 1899, pp. 43-44.