Wooden Box
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Nov 1878
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward W. Nelson
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "OLD LABEL: "TRINKET BOX.-THE BOTTOM IS DUG OUT FROM A PIECE OF WOOD AND MADE TO FIT INTO A GROOVE OF THE WOODEN RIM WHICH IS LAPPED IN FRONT AND SEWED TOGETHER WITH BUCKSKIN THONG. THE TOP WORKS ON BUCKSKIN HINGES AND IS FASTENED WITH A LOOP OF BUCKSKIN OVER AN IVORY CATCH. CIRCULAR IN FORM. LOANED TO ALASKA STATE MUSEUM 3-31-83. LOAN RETURNED 09 23 87."
label: Notes
content: Listed on page 30 in "The Exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915", in section "Arts of the Western Eskimo".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
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: E33010-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Box
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 18 cm
label: Width
content: 8.9 cm
label: Height
content: 6.3 cm