Snuff box
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1890
name: label: Culture/People
content: Iñupiaq
label: Previous owner
content: Daniel Sidney Brown, Non-Indian, 1853-1919
label: Auction venue
content: The Walpole Galleries
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Daniel Sidney Brown (1853-1919, a St. Louis, Missouri, businessman and collector of snuff boxes and ivory objects); purchased by MAI in 1923 at an auction of items from Daniel Sidney Brown's collection held at the Walpole Galleries (New York City).
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Nome; Bering Straits Native Corporation; Alaska; USA
setName: label: See related items
content: Iñupiaq
label: See related items
content: Pipes and Smoking
label: On View
content: NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Arctic & Subarctic
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 11/8177
label: Barcode
content: 118177.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipes and Smoking
label: Indigenous Term
content: perutku
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Snuff box
label: Media/Materials
content: Wood, glass bead/beads, hide
label: Techniques
content: Carved, inlaid
label: Dimensions
content: 5 x 5 x 5 cm