Carved Wooden Tobacco Box
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Edward W. Nelson
label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; PL. LXXXVI-9; P. 270. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL. 4, P.6. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." USIA Inua catalogue identifies: Quid box. Quids were made by mixing the ashes of birch tree fungus with finely chopped tobacco. This box was used to store the quids.
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 30 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".
label: Notes
content: Iqmiutaak Tobacco Box.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Konigunuaumut, Kuskokwim Bay, 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: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E35956-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tobacco Box
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 8 cm
label: Diameter
content: 3.5 cm