Work Box w/ Lid
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. XLII-3; P. 102. 1/83 SITES INUA LOAN. LOAN: U.S.I.A. INUA JUN 24 1988. ILLUS.: INUA CATALOGUE. USIA 1988, PL. 60, P.43. LOAN RETURNED DEC 28 1990." From Inua catalogue, USIA, caption for this artifact: "Women's tool box. Men carved boxes such as this in the qasgiq or men's house. They stored small scrapers, awls, thread spools, boot sole creasers, and other sewing tools. This particular box has been finely crafted with ivory inlays incised with the circle and dot motif. 24 cm. "
label: Notes
content: From transcript of consultations held in conjunction with "Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live)" exhibit, April 17-18, 2010: "container that women use to put their needles, things they used when they're working with mukluks, ivrucit and things that they need."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Mar 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yukon River, Lower, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 008133
label: USNM Number
content: E36240-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box