Bag

Museum number:
2-5779
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005779
Alternate number:
x-869 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Fishskin bag (poor condition). Vertical fishskin (not salmon) side panel. Mouth of horizontal panels, same skin, upper edge everted, with fishskin hanging ties at one end. Bottom of single large piece salmon skin. Sewn throughout with cotton thread, whipstitch. Holes from dorasal fins mended from inside.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo and Ingalik
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
Context of use:
container
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 19 centimeters and length 32 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5779, described as Fishskin bag (poor condition). Vertical fishskin (not salmon) side panel. Mouth of horizontal panels, same skin, upper edge everted, with fishskin hanging ties at one end. Bottom of single large piece salmon skin. Sewn throughout with cotton thread, whipstitch. Holes from dorasal fins mended from inside.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5779, described as Fishskin bag (poor condition). Vertical fishskin (not salmon) side panel. Mouth of horizontal panels, same skin, upper edge everted, with fishskin hanging ties at one end. Bottom of single large piece salmon skin. Sewn throughout with cotton thread, whipstitch. Holes from dorasal fins mended from inside.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bag, accession number 2-5779, described as Fishskin bag (poor condition). Vertical fishskin (not salmon) side panel. Mouth of horizontal panels, same skin, upper edge everted, with fishskin hanging ties at one end. Bottom of single large piece salmon skin. Sewn throughout with cotton thread, whipstitch. Holes from dorasal fins mended from inside.

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