Wallet

NA196

From: Alaska | Nunivak Island

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA196
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Eskimo
Provenience Alaska | Nunivak Island
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Salmon Skin | Cloth | Ivory
Description

Salmon skin with appliqued skin decoration to ornamental top. Broad shallow pocket with curved extension of back, edged with strip of deerskin. The pocket has a cloth covering over the front with light brown stripes on dark brown ground. Large piece of polish bone at the top of the wallet with a brown cloth.

Length 35 cm
Width 22.5 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905

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