Needle-Case Of Ivory
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: "WITH LEATHER THONG AND PENDANTS OF CANINE TEETH. ILLUS. IN PROCEEDINGS, USNM, VOL 34 (1908), P1. 25, FIG. 3; P. 344." FROM CARD: "NEEDLE CASE.---IVORY TUBE FLATTENED AT ONE END AND DECORATED WITH LINES. A LEATHER THONG PASSES THROUGH THE TUBE AND CONTAINS THE NEEDLES. PENDANTS OF CANINE TEETH AND IVORY HOOK FOR SUSPENSION. LENGTH OF TUBE, 4 1/2 INCHES. ESKIMO OF SHAKTOLIK, ALASKA. 39,094. COLLECTED BY E. W. NELSON."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 33 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: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Shaktolik, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E39094-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Needle Case
physicalDescription: label: Length - Of Tube
content: 11.4 cm