Bag made of Seal or Sea Lion Gut, with a silk draw string, decorated with silk thread and white feathers
Unangax̂ (Aleut)
Western Arctic
Arctic
collected 1905
Seal or seal lion gut (intestine), sea duck feathers, silk thread decoration and trim on the triangular patterned opening
Overall: 10 13/16 × 12 5/8 in. (27.5 × 32 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.9799
Geography
Place Made: Pribilof Islands, Aleutan Islands, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Bag
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Arctic-Western Arctic
Not on view
Course History
NAS 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Medeia Krisztina C. DeHass, Spring 2013
NAS 37, ANTH 47, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Winter 2014
NAS 37, ANTH 37, Alaska: American Dreams and Native Realities, Sergei Kan, Spring 2015
Provenance
Collected by Captain Oscar C. Hamlet (1848-1916) [Captain of the Cutter Bear, the ship the Churchill's travelled on in Alaska]; given to Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Pribilof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, probably 1905; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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