Birch Bark Snuff-Box
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Jul 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Museum Of Academy Of Sciences Leningrad
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Wooden base and top. Top lifts off by a leather thong. Flat oval shape."
label: Notes
content: Identified by Zinaida Ivanova, Arctic Institute of Culture and Arts, Yakutsk, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, Russia Federation, 11-7-2012 as a tobacco box.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Ivanova-Unarova, Zinaida, 2017. Siberian Collections in the U.S. Museums. Yakutsk. Object is identified there: Birch bark snuff box. Kholtun. 19th century, second half. Birch bark, wood. Carving. H.: 10, W.: 11.5. The walls of the box are made of two layers of birch bark, the lid and the oval base are carved from wood. The bottom is inset. The birch bark walls are connected to each other using 'finger coupling' method. The lid has a leather loop. There are many random scratches on the walls on two sides. The birch bark is damaged on one wall.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Aldan & Lena Rivers Area, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yakut (Sakha)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 103666
label: USNM Number
content: E352223-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tobacco Box
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 10 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11.5 cm