Needle-Case
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jun 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Smithsonian Institution
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Ivory. Pendants on strap. Illus. in Proceedings, USNM, vol. 34 (1908); Pl. 29, fig. 3; p. 344." From 19th or early 20th century exhibit label with card: "Needle Case. - Flattened ivory tube decorated with fish-bone carvings. Attached to the leather strap passing through the tube are various ivory pendants and a leather thimble. Length of tube, 4 1/2 inches. Eskimo of St. Michaels, Alaska, 1887. Collected by L. M. Turner."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 20, p. 21 in Fitzhugh, William W., and Aron Crowell. 1988. Crossroads of continents: cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Identified there: "Needlecase, Siberian Native. ... evidence of Siberian manufacture is seen in designs on an ivory needlecase collected by Lucien Turner in St. Michael, Alaska, in the 1870s. A Russian American trading post between 1833 and 1867, St. Michael attracted native visitors from throughout western Alaska. Turner probably purchased this piece from an Eskimo who had obtained it as a souvenir of his Siberian encounters."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, 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: 019248
label: USNM Number
content: E129219-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Needle Case