Fastening rod

Museum number:

2-4134

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Alternate number:

Neumann #505 (original number, Second Orig. No.: Neumann #505.) and x-280 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.167

Description:

For woman's workbag. Carved fish with incised markings. Made of walrus ivory.

Donor:

Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections

Collection place:

Alaska

Verbatim coll. place:

Alaska

Culture or time period:

Akulemiut Eskimo

Collector:

Rudolph Neumann

Collection date:

1898

Materials:

Walrus ivory

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Carvings (visual works)

Function:

2.1 Daily Garb

Accession date:

1904

Context of use:

Used to fasten woman' work bag ("housewife")

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

length 16.3 centimeters

Loans:

S1967-1968 #25 [formerly I-54-B]: University of California, Riverside/John F. Goins (July 1, 1954–present)

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