White leather. Long single pocket with 2 transverse bands with applique of black gut coated with specular hematite trimmed with red wool cloth and red dyed sinew. Embroidery. 3 lobed designs in red leather or gut on inside of flap. Fur tuft inserts.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alutiiq and Kodiak Eskimo
Collector:
E. Lennan
Collection date:
unknown
Materials:
Cotton (textile), Hair (material), Sinew (material), and Whisker (hair material)
Taxon:
Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pouches
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
to store sewing and other women's articles.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
opened— length 41 centimeters
Comment:
References: Heizer Notes on Koniag Material Culture, text pp. 17-18 and p. 24, pl. 3 d.