Pouch
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Made of hide. This is a commercial piece having two pockets lined with blue calico. The top of the pockets are faced with red strouding which is beaded. Very similar to 357769, from Alaska. L..L.L. [Linda Eisenhart] 1977."
label: Notes
content: May be Northwest Coast (possibly Tlingit??) rather than Eskimo? Compare to Tlingit wall pockets Fig. 1.6 - Fig. 1.8, pp. 48 -49, in Smetzer, Megan A. 2021. Painful Beauty : Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience. Seattle: Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art, Burke Museum : University of Washington Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/85691/ . See also National Museum of the American Indian Catalogue # 20/1558.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Mar 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southeastern Canada (not certain), Alaska (not certain), Canada (not certain) / United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo (?)
label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast Indian (?)
label: Culture
content: Tlingit (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E357780-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wall Pocket