Nest material
- Museum number:
- 2-20984
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020020984
- Accession number:
- Acc.982
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- From squirrel's nest.
- Donor:
- Catherine McClellan
- Collection place:
- Yukon, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Canada; Yukon
- Culture or time period:
- Teslin
- Maker or artist:
- Pansy Bailey
- Collector:
- Catherine McClellan and Dorothy Lee Rainier
- Collection date:
- 1949
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 1.8 Toilet Articles
- Accession date:
- 1949
- Context of use:
- Used as menstrual pads and as absorbant material during childbirth.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Legacy documentation:
-