Wooden box, narrow, curved. Painted red with blue sides. Zoomorphic carved, with lid, in a long rectangular curved shape. Representing an otter swimming (lid). Storage.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Pastolik, Wade Hampton Borough, Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Rudolph Neumann
Collection date:
1898
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Boxes (containers) and Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Storage.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 2.2 centimeters and length 19 centimeters
Comment:
Neumann 29 listed in his cat. as "boxes representing large seal" so this may be error, but 29 on specimen.