Shuttle

Museum number:
2-65797
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020065797
Alternate number:
36 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3680
Description:
Net shuttle. Carved, flat wood with triangular opening at each end, one end broken. Label on back says "Shuttle for Weaving.
Donor:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection place:
Paimiut, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Paimiut
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shuttles (textile fabricating tools)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 1.8 centimeters and length 11.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Arctic Art: Eskimo Ivory, Museum of the American Indian, p. 33. Nelson, Edward William, The Eskimo about Bering Strait, 18th Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, p. 192.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 2-65797, described as Net shuttle. Carved, flat wood with triangular opening at each end, one end broken. Label on back says "Shuttle for Weaving.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shuttle, accession number 2-65797, described as Net shuttle. Carved, flat wood with triangular opening at each end, one end broken. Label on back says "Shuttle for Weaving.

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