Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected in 1876 by Lucien M. Turner (1848-1909, of the US Army Signal Corps) for the U.S. National Museum (precursor to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History); acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the US National Museum in 1908.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Yup'ik (Yupik) or Iñupiaq (attributed)
- Collector
- Lucien M. Turner, Non-Indian, 1848-1909
- Previous owner
- U.S. National Museum (United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History)
- Object Name
- Bag handle
- Media/Materials
- Ivory
- Techniques
- Incised
- Object Type
- Bags/Pouches (and parts)
