Wooden Snuff-Box And Snuffing Tube
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Nov 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "WHALEBONE SIDES. ILLUS. IN BAE 18TH AR, PT. 1; P1. LXXXVI-6; P. 270. LOAN: CROSSROADS SEP 22 1988. LOAN RETURNED: JAN 21 1993. ILLUS.: CROSSROADS OF CONTINENTS CATALOGUE; FIG.320, P.238." Crossroads catalogue caption identifies as a tobacco and snuff box, Bering Sea Eskimo: "Snuff taking spread to Alaska along with the rest of the Asian tobacco complex, and many Alaskan snuff boxes are Asian in design like the oval, baleen-covrered leather example ... from Norton Sound. Its shape and interlaced seam are derived from birchbark snuff boxes made by the Chukchi, Koryak, and other Siberian groups. A birdbone snorting tube is attached to the lid."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: 78A00080
label: USNM Number
content: E33013-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box