Object Number | NA5704 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Iron | Abalone Shell |
Description | Iron hair ornament that attaches to a young girl's hair braid. V-shaped with a deep notch in the center. Both arms have three longitudinal ridges and terminate in a spiral with a shell disc inlaid at the center of the spiral. The lower edge of each arm is somewhat thinned and the entire ornament bears similarities to Northwest Coast dagger pommels. |
Length | 12.6 cm |
Width | 5.8 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917 |
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