Wallet

NA195.5

From: Alaska | Nunivak Island

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA195.5
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Eskimo
Provenience Alaska | Nunivak Island
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Salmon Skin | Fur | Feathers
Description

Salmon skin with appliqued skin decoration to ornamental top. Narrow, deep pocket with curved extension of back, edged with strip of deerskin. Bands of dyed skin applied with dark and light stitching on both sides, with fur attached to the horizontal band across the front.

Length 19 cm
Width 14 cm
Credit Line Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905

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