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Object Number 07-8-10/75324
Display Title Bag made from wolverine's head for holding sewing gear
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bag, 4 wolverines, including heads, sewn together w/ fiber thread, noses meet at
Classification
  • Bag
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Western Arctic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / North Slope Burough / Flaxman Island?
Materials Fur, Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 37.5 x 25.4 x 4.6 cm (14 3/4 x 10 x 1 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 75324
Provenance
Collector Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1907)
Expedition Anglo-American Polar Expedition (1907)

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