Fire Bag, Ornamented
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 May 1865
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS.: THE SPIRIT SINGS CATALOGUE, GLENBOW-ALBERTA INST., 1987, #A73, P.127."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/75 , retrieved 12-10-2019: Tobacco pouch. A pouch made of caribou skin. The decoration is made using pieces of white haired caribou skin and snippets of red and dark blue wool cloth. Around the bottom of the bag is a fringe of white haired skin strips that have been tipped with dark haired pieces of fur, possibly wolverine fur. Pouches of this type were commonly used to hold tobacco.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 65A00065
label: USNM Number
content: E1082-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag