Bag Of Seal Intestine
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Thomas T. Minor
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Thomas T. Minor
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "7958-61. IN SPITE OF WHAT IS RECORDED ON THE OLD CASE LABELS, THESE ITEMS ARE BAGS, NOT HEADDRESSES. H. B. COLLINS 1977." FROM OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY SMITHSONIAN EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEAD-DRESS.--BAG-SHAPED CAP, MADE OF PIECES OF SEAL INTESTINE SEWED TOGETHER, EACH SEAM BEING ORNAMENTED WITH TUFTS OF RED AND BLACK WOOL, OR STRIPS OF REDINTESTINE; AND THE MOUTH BEING BORDERED WITH A BLACK AND RED BAND AND DARK PURPLE FEATHERS. UNALASHKWANS, UNALASHKA ISLAND. CIRCUMFERENCE, 17 INS. DEPTH, 9 INS. ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, 1868. 7,960. COLLECTED BY DR. T. T. MINOR."
label: Notes
content: Skin bag, sea mammal intestine, comorant feathers, wool, sinew, 19th century, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Feb 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands / Fox Islands, 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: 001499
label: USNM Number
content: E7960-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Circumference - Object
content: 43 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 23 cm