Needle case

Museum number:
2-1588
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Accession number:
Acc.46
Object count:
1
Description:
Made of ivory, with incised and darkened encircling bands with rectangle-like boxes. Stoppers are red-stained wood fish head and tail.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Lower Yukon, Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Lower Yukon
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Charles L. Hall
Collection date:
ca. 1895
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Needle cases
Accession date:
August 12, 1902
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 14.8 centimeters
Loans:
S1938-1939 #1: Golden Gate International Exposition (February 14, 1939–October 11, 1940) and S1964-1965 #9: University of California, Davis (September 3, 1964–January 1965)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1588, described as Made of ivory, with incised and darkened encircling bands with rectangle-like boxes. Stoppers are red-stained wood fish head and tail.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1588, described as Made of ivory, with incised and darkened encircling bands with rectangle-like boxes. Stoppers are red-stained wood fish head and tail.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1588, described as Made of ivory, with incised and darkened encircling bands with rectangle-like boxes. Stoppers are red-stained wood fish head and tail.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Needle case, accession number 2-1588, described as Made of ivory, with incised and darkened encircling bands with rectangle-like boxes. Stoppers are red-stained wood fish head and tail.

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