Bag

NA10377.7

From: Alaska | Nunivak Island

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA10377.7
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Eskimo
Provenience Alaska | Nunivak Island
Culture Area Arctic Culture Area
Section American
Materials Bird Foot | Feathers
Description

Small. Skin of the foot of a water fowl, decorated by sewing on figures cut from light colored skin.

One figure on each side (one four armed figure with rounded ends and one three armed with rounded ends). Edge of bag also of light colored skin. Purple braided draw cord (wool) three claws at bottom.

Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Arctic: Nunivak Island / Hooper Bay; William Blair Van Valin, 1919

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