Needle Case
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1894
name: label: Collector
content: J. H. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 33 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo". From card: "Ivory. Illus. in Proceedings, USNM, vol. 34 (1908), pl. 24, fig. 3, p. 344."
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=648 , retrieved 11-18-2021; see web page for additional information: Needle case, Yup'ik. On this type of case, needles are tucked into a leather strap and covered with a sliding ivory tube. Attached to the strap on this needle case are a woman's protective amulets including tips for bird arrows and nail-shaped labrets (lip ornaments) that her husband wore as a child. Also attached are beads, a beaver tooth, and a double-U shaped ivory holder for leather thimbles.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Yup'ik
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 027937
label: USNM Number
content: E153830-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Needle Case
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 31.5 cm