Workbag
- Museum number:
- 2-5810
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005810
- Alternate number:
- x-900 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Fishskin bag with fur-edged flap. Thong closure.
- 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:
- unknown
- Materials:
- Fur (hair material), Leather, and Quill (spine material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- So-called "housewife," i.e. little case for sewing materials. Common throughout the Western Arctic for storing materials for sewing and mending.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- 19 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-