Sewing kit
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1965
name: label: Culture/People
content: Iñupiaq
label: Artist/Maker
content: Nita E. Thomas (Nita Ethel Armstrong), Iñupiaq, 1924-1999
label: IACB source
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office, Sitka, Alaska (IACB Office, Sitka, Alaska)
label: Previous owner
content: Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-
notes: label: Collection History
content: Formerly in the collection held by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board Office in Sitka, Alaska, which included many pieces produced and acquired during IACB demonstration-workshops held in Sitka between 1962 and 1968; transferred to the IACB Headquarters collection in Washington, DC, in 1969; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Buckland; NANA Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Iñupiaq
label: See related items
content: Sewing Tools and Equipment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 25/5931
label: Barcode
content: 255931.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sewing Tools and Equipment
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Sewing kit
label: Media/Materials
content: Walrus Ivory, bearded seal/ugruk hide/skin, hide, sinew
label: Techniques
content: Carved, twisted, sewn
label: Dimensions
content: 8.2 x 4.5 cm