Pouch

Museum number:
2-71291
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Alternate number:
2-30117 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1118
Description:
Black stroud cloth, edges bound with dark blue cotton cloth, cotton cloth lining, floral design using multi-colored glass seed beads, white beads outline edges. Specimen is badly deteriorated with much of the stroud cloth and beadwork missing.
Donor:
A. Wallis Kierulff
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Northern Athapaskan tribes
Collector:
A. Wallis Kierulff and Harry Newton Kierulff
Collection date:
1890-1903
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pouches
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1953
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 16 centimeters and length 25 centimeters
Comment:
Note: this pouch was originally one of two numbered 2-30117. See accession envelope for collector's account of experiences in Alaska.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-71291, described as Black stroud cloth, edges bound with dark blue cotton cloth, cotton cloth lining, floral design using multi-colored glass seed beads, white beads outline edges. Specimen is badly deteriorated with much of the stroud cloth and beadwork missing.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pouch, accession number 2-71291, described as Black stroud cloth, edges bound with dark blue cotton cloth, cotton cloth lining, floral design using multi-colored glass seed beads, white beads outline edges. Specimen is badly deteriorated with much of the stroud cloth and beadwork missing.

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