Trinket box
- Museum number:
- 2-5956
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005956
- Alternate number:
- x-2149 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Slab of ivory, probably from trinket box. Incised and darkened concentric circles on one surface. Remnants of wood pegs in center of circles.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- ornament for container
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 8.8 centimeters and width 1.9 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-