Bag, "Tar Kook"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1898
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "LEATHER. FOR NEEDLES. TOBACCO POUCH ? INVENTORIED 1974." FROM CARD: "178,123 A. NEEDLE BAG (TARKOOK).-OF BLACK LEATHER, CRUCIFORM IN OUTLINE; GATHERING STRING AT THE THROAT; SUSPENDING CORD, FROM BRASS RINGS AT TOP. IT IS SAID TO BE OF CHINESE ORIGIN, AND TO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FROM LHASA. SIMILAR BAGS ARE USED IN CHINA FOR PIPE AND TOBACCO. LENGTH, 10 1/2 INCHES. LEH, LADAKH. 178,123. GIFT OF DR. W. L. ABBOTT."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Leh, Ladakh, India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 033299
label: USNM Number
content: E178123-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 26.7 cm