Tobacco Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Oct 1913
name: label: Collector
content: Riley D. Moore
label: Donor Name
content: U.S. National Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Dehaired sealskin ornamented with braiding and applique designs in white. Loops for belt; flap closed with two drawstrings."
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=325 , retrieved 7-17-2018; see web page for additional information: Tobacco bag. "This one is a man's tobacco pouch. They carry it on their belt like that, all the time. Later on, we used to make shell bags for the men like that." Estelle Oozevaseuk, 2001 Siberian and St. Lawrence Island Yupik tobacco bags were decorated with geometric designs made from strips and patches of bleached, alder-dyed, and black skin. A similar type of bag was used to hold gun cartridges for hunting. Estelle Oozevaseuk said, "That is shaven skin. They tried to use a thin hair seal, shaved it, and made it into these. Again there are those stitches. We called them siklapegtaq [stitching in a toothlike pattern]."
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
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: 055962
label: USNM Number
content: E280164-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm