Tobacco Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jul 1921
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Sheldon Jackson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Patch work design." Reverse of card has illustration indicating top of front of bag is hair seal, main body is brown leather, design inserts intestine, and reverse is all hair seal.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=334 , retrieved 7-31-2018; see web page for additional information: Tobacco bag. Men tucked this kind of drawstring tobacco bag into their belts. The fur is ringed seal, with rings or "eyes" that can be seen along the top of the bag. The light colored pieces that make up the design are seal hide that was hung outside in winter to freeze and whiten.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yupik, St. Lawrence Island
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 066880
label: USNM Number
content: E316663-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 20 cm