Snuff box

Museum number:
2-4649
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-1045 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Tobacco mortar used in snuff-manufacture. Round carved wooden container with encircling grooves and inlay of ivory rounds. Old split. wood carved with concentric ring; mother-of-pearl insets around rim and sides, many now lost. Wood cracked along side; lid lost.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo, Alutiiq, and Northwest Coastal People
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ground stone and Mortars (grinding tools)
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 6 centimeters and diameter 8.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Snuff box, accession number 2-4649, described as Tobacco mortar used in snuff-manufacture. Round carved wooden container with encircling grooves and inlay of ivory rounds. Old split. wood carved with concentric ring; mother-of-pearl insets around rim and sides, many now lost. Wood cracked along side; lid lost.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Snuff box, accession number 2-4649, described as Tobacco mortar used in snuff-manufacture. Round carved wooden container with encircling grooves and inlay of ivory rounds. Old split. wood carved with concentric ring; mother-of-pearl insets around rim and sides, many now lost. Wood cracked along side; lid lost.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Snuff box, accession number 2-4649, described as Tobacco mortar used in snuff-manufacture. Round carved wooden container with encircling grooves and inlay of ivory rounds. Old split. wood carved with concentric ring; mother-of-pearl insets around rim and sides, many now lost. Wood cracked along side; lid lost.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Snuff box, accession number 2-4649, described as Tobacco mortar used in snuff-manufacture. Round carved wooden container with encircling grooves and inlay of ivory rounds. Old split. wood carved with concentric ring; mother-of-pearl insets around rim and sides, many now lost. Wood cracked along side; lid lost.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Snuff box, accession number 2-4649, described as Tobacco mortar used in snuff-manufacture. Round carved wooden container with encircling grooves and inlay of ivory rounds. Old split. wood carved with concentric ring; mother-of-pearl insets around rim and sides, many now lost. Wood cracked along side; lid lost.

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