Case

Museum number:

2-552

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Accession number:

Acc.46

Object count:

1

Description:

Needle, made of waterfowl wingbone, with encircling bands, both stoppers missing.

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

Accession date:

August 12, 1902

Context of use:

Woman"s needlecase, too wide to be snuff tube.

Department:

Cat. 2 - North America (except Mexico and Central America)

Dimensions:

length 5.2 centimeters

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