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Museum number:: 2-6524
Permalink:: ark:/21549/hm21020006524
Alternate number:: x-2717 (original number)
Accession number:: Acc.167
Description:: Storage bag. Large sealskin skinned cut in one piece with flipers and claws. Opening between forelegs side with leather (depilitated) edging for drawsting (drawstring missing). Small rawhide line at head end for hanging or dragging. Made with sealskin, depil. leather, twisted sinew thread, and rawhide.
Donor:: Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:: Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:: Alaska
Culture or time period:: Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:: unknown
Collection date:: unknown
Object type:: ethnography
Object class:: Bags (generic containers)
Function:: 1.5 Household
Accession date:: 1904
Context of use:: to store clothes
Department:: Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:: length 153 centimeters
Comment:: References: Nelson, E.W. 1899, Bur. Am. Ethn. 18th Ann. Rep., 43-44, fig. 8.