Cigar Case

NA8200

From: Alaska | Attu Island | Aleutian Islands

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number NA8200
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Aleut
Provenience Alaska | Attu Island | Aleutian Islands
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Plant Fiber
Description

Cigar case and lid. Woven grass. Forty stitches to inch. thirty-eight rows to inch. Plain weave with bottom and top banded with openwork of crossed warps. Design in coloured false embroidery: hour-glass figures on case; I figures on cover.

Height 10.79 cm
Width 6.99 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Henry K. Deisher, 1918
Other Number 326 (Deisher #) - Collector Number

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