Bag Handles
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Jan 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY AN OBJECT WITH THIS NUMBER SENT TO PEABODY MUSEUM, HARVARD, MASS. 1887.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/30 , retrieved 1-28-2020: Two ivory rods with holes drilled at each end that may have been bag handles, although no bags using this type of handle are present in the collection. One of the handles is straight. The other is curved, and is decorated with engraved lines. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/7: Skin bags used for storing tools and other items often had carrying handles made from antler or ivory. Bag handles commonly had holes drilled at each end for fastening ties that were attached to the bags.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 69A00012
label: USNM Number
content: E7447-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag Handle