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: 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 https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=333 , retrieved 7-17-2018; see web page for additional information: Tobacco bag. A woman wore her tobacco bag on the outside of her one-piece reindeer skin suit, along with her needle case. The bag held a small personal supply of chewing tobacco, snuff, or smoking tobacco. As typical for Siberian Yupik and St. Lawrence Island Yupik tobacco bags this one is decorated with geometric cut-out designs made from strips and patches of bleached and dyed skin.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Feb 2022
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 066880
label: USNM Number
content: E316649-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm