Quiver with lid. Twined spruce root with false embroidery designs in yellow grass stems and in red and yellow-brown wool yarn. (a) Quiver, cylinder with bulge at top.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alutiiq, Chugach, and Kodiak Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Quivers and Twined weaving
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Alutiiq/Sugpiaq is the appropriate term to use for the Kodiak region rather than "Eskimo.