Spunk Bag Of Leather
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1878 to 1879
name: label: Collector
content: Vega Expedition
label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: This object was catalogued in 1884 and identified as given by the Royal Museum of Sweden. Old tag with artifact says "Pitlekaj. Vega Exp." In 1878-1880 the Vega expedition in the Arctic Ocean took place. The expedition was headed by polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld; the ship used was the Vega. The purpose of the expedition was to study the Arctic coast along Russian Siberia, and look for the Northeast Passage. The expedition's progress was stopped by pack ice on September 28, 1878, about 1.5 kilometers from the coast at the Chukchi Peninsula at Neshkan, only days from the Bering Strait. The expedition spent the winter there at a place called Pitlekaj in eastern Siberia between Wrangel Island and the Bering Strait. See the 2 volume publication: Nordenskiöld, A. E. (Adolf Erik)., Leslie, A. (1881). The voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe: with a historical review of previous journeys along the north coast of the Old world. London: Macmillan and co.. The Vega expedition artifacts are described on p. 112 of the U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1884, where this artifact is described as a leather bag containing flint and tinder.
label: Notes
content: Reference: Krupnik, Igor & Schultz, Martin. (2020). Dispersal and Reunion – The Saga of the “Vega” Expedition Chukchi Collection, 1878–2020. In Archiv 69: Archiv Weltmuseum Wien. 106-137.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Jun 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Pitlekaj, Siberia, Russia, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chukchi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E73224-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Fire Set