Bag

NA193B

From: Alaska | Nunivak Island

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA193B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Eskimo
Provenience Alaska | Nunivak Island
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Salmon Skin | Goose Foot
Description

Fish skin bag. Vertical bands along the sides are dark colored with light colored applied bands and a circle with a tail at the top. A horizontal band around the top of the veritcal band is in a similar style. Above the horizontal band is a tall rim, somewhat damaged and repaired. Bottom is also of fish skin.

Height 36 cm
Length 34 cm
Width 30 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905

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