Sewing Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Mar 1872
name: label: Donor Name
content: Vincent Colyer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PEOPLE: ALEUT*. REMARKS. *DR. [HENRY] COLLINS BELIEVES THIS TO BE ALEUT. 6/1977. " Card originally identified this bag as "Alaska Indian "Housewife". Housewife was subsequently crossed off and the bag was reidentified as "man's hunting pouch".
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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 http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=509, retrieved 5-15-2014: Sewing bag, Unangax^ (Aleut) This handsome roll-up bag was sewn from white-tanned seal esophagus, decorated with red and black-painted esophagus and caribou hair embroidery. It has a pouch, a rounded flap, and a braided sinew cord that wraps around the bag when it is rolled up. Women used this type to hold sewing notions and men carried them as hunting bags to hold rifle cartridges, knife sharpeners, and other small tools.
label: Notes
content: From Elders' discussions of the bag in 2003 with Mary N. Bourdukofsky, Vlass Shabolin, Maria Turnpaugh and Daria Dirks (Tanadgusix Foundation) at the National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, 4/07/2003-4/11/2003. Also participating: Aron Crowell and Bill Fitzhugh (NMNH) and Suzi Jones (AMHA). My mom used to have one, made out of just ordinary material.... One pocket has threads, another pocket has a thimble, another pocket has scissors, and then it's folded and tied, and you roll it. - Mary Bourdukofsky
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 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: Aleut (Unangax^ ; Unangan; Unangas) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 002332
label: USNM Number
content: E11078-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 44 cm