Needle case

Museum number:
2-1643
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Birdbone, with incised and darkened Xs, encircling bands and lines of dots. Fishtail shaped wood stopper (other stopper missing). These tubes are made of hollow goose wing bones. This specimen not snuff tube because it has stopper.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon to Kuskokwim, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon to Kuskokwim
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Taxon:
Anatidae
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Needle cases
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 14 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1643, described as Birdbone, with incised and darkened Xs, encircling bands and lines of dots. Fishtail shaped wood stopper (other stopper missing). These tubes are made of hollow goose wing bones. This specimen not snuff tube because it has stopper.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1643, described as Birdbone, with incised and darkened Xs, encircling bands and lines of dots. Fishtail shaped wood stopper (other stopper missing). These tubes are made of hollow goose wing bones. This specimen not snuff tube because it has stopper.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1643, described as Birdbone, with incised and darkened Xs, encircling bands and lines of dots. Fishtail shaped wood stopper (other stopper missing). These tubes are made of hollow goose wing bones. This specimen not snuff tube because it has stopper.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1643, described as Birdbone, with incised and darkened Xs, encircling bands and lines of dots. Fishtail shaped wood stopper (other stopper missing). These tubes are made of hollow goose wing bones. This specimen not snuff tube because it has stopper.

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