Snuffbox
- Museum number:
- 2-13395
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020013395
- Alternate number:
- 205 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.639
- Description:
- Oval shaped. Sides of 1 piece of black whalebone (baleen) joined in 2 scallops. Wood bottom and lid fastened to side with thong. Lined with hide.
- Donor:
- Mary S. Johnson
- Collection place:
- Northern Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska; Northern Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Aglegmiut Eskimo and Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Agnes Ruth Sengstacken
- Collection date:
- unknown
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Accession date:
- 1929
- Context of use:
- Said to have been found in the grave of a great chief, but most likely ethnographic
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- width 6.7 centimeters and length 9.5 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-