Carrying-Bag
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 1907
name: label: Collector
content: Lt. George T. Emmons
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Caribou skin net-work bag, colored in alternate bands of red mineral paint. Carried with a back strap." From second card: "Babiche bag, Babiche, animal skin; looped."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact http://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=114, retrieved 8-27-2012: Bag, Tahltan Athabascan. Athabascan peoples in Alaska and British Columbia made utility bags from thin strips of babiche, or untanned hide, which was cut from a tanned moose or caribou skin in a long, continuous spiral. Babiche, also used for snowshoe netting, is tough enough to hold up under rigorous use and harsh weather. A Tahltan knotted bag like this one would hang on a sled during hunting excursions to hold game and provisions. Its open weave allows air to circulate. The painted stripes were made with red ocher, a mineral pigment.
label: Notes
content: This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Stikine River, British Columbia, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tahltan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 047997
label: USNM Number
content: E248517-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 58 cm