Moose skin

Museum number:
2-1217
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Description:
Piece of raw moose skin used in making snow shoes.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwest Bering Sea, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Lower Yukon /NW Behring Sea
Culture or time period:
Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Materials:
Skin (collagenous material)
Taxon:
Alces alces
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Monkeys and Pelts (animal skins)
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Noted as missing in 1959 inventory.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moose skin, accession number 2-1217, described as Piece of raw moose skin used in making snow shoes.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moose skin, accession number 2-1217, described as Piece of raw moose skin used in making snow shoes.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Moose skin, accession number 2-1217, described as Piece of raw moose skin used in making snow shoes.

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