Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; purchased by George Heye from D.M. Averill and Co. (a Portland, Oregon, publishing company and coin dealer) in 1905.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- possibly Yup'ik (Yupik) or Iñupiaq (attributed)
- Previous owner
- D. M. Averill and Company
- Seller
- D. M. Averill and Company
- Object Name
- Needle case
- Media/Materials
- Bird bone/bones
- Techniques
- Incised
- Object Type
- Sewing Tools and Equipment
