Wallet Item Number: E168293-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
FROM CARD: "BEADED BUCKSKIN."Florence Sheakley, elder, Ruth Demmert, elder, and Linda Wynnemade the following comments during the Tlingit Recovering Voices Community Research Visit, March 13-March 24, 2017. This bag is a three-sided pouch made of soft buckskin. Each side of the pouch features the same beadwork and same seaweed pattern, but in different bead colors. Ruth commented that she had never seen a three-sided pouch like this before.
Item History
- Made in Alaska, USA ?
- Collected by Lt. George T. Emmons in Alaska, USA ?
- Received from U. S. Department of the Navy on April 17, 1894
What
- Name
- Wallet
- Identification Number
- E168293-0
- Type of Item
- bag
Who
- Culture
- Tlingit
- Field Collector
- Lt. George T. Emmons
- Received from
- U. S. Department of the Navy
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Alaska, USA ?
- Collected in
- Alaska, USA ?
When
- Acquisition Date
- on April 17, 1894
Other
- Accession Number
- 028072