Needle case
name: label: Culture/People
content: Yup'ik (Yupik)
label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner, Non-Indian, 1848-1909
label: Previous owner
content: U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History)
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collected in 1876 by Lucien M. Turner (1848-1909, of the US Army Signal Corps) for the U.S. National Museum (precursor to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History); acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the US National Museum in 1908.
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Saint Michael; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
label: Archipelago
content: Bering Sea Islands
label: Island Name
content: Saint Michael Island
setName: label: See related items
content: Yup'ik (Yupik)
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: 2/396
label: Barcode
content: 020396.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sewing Tools and Equipment
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Needle case
label: Media/Materials
content: Ivory, hide
label: Techniques
content: Incised