Bag

Museum number:
2-5797
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-887 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Circular bag, top portion only. Vertical strips of white tanned stomach or gut sewn with red (alder) dyed insets along seams. Mouth of horizontal strips, same material. Sewn with sinew thread in running stitch.
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:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 16.5 centimeters and width 22 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5797, described as Circular bag, top portion only. Vertical strips of white tanned stomach or gut sewn with red (alder) dyed insets along seams. Mouth of horizontal strips, same material. Sewn with sinew thread in running stitch.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5797, described as Circular bag, top portion only. Vertical strips of white tanned stomach or gut sewn with red (alder) dyed insets along seams. Mouth of horizontal strips, same material. Sewn with sinew thread in running stitch.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5797, described as Circular bag, top portion only. Vertical strips of white tanned stomach or gut sewn with red (alder) dyed insets along seams. Mouth of horizontal strips, same material. Sewn with sinew thread in running stitch.

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