Headdress

NA11767

From: United States of America | Alaska | Southeast Alaska | Sitka (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA11767
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Southeast Alaska | Sitka (uncertain)
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus Sitka Kaagwaantaan Clan?
Section American
Materials Scalp | Wool | String
Description

Ceremonial headdress. Scalp of "Djaksan." Scalp of one of the early skippers on a trading ship. Had fallen loose, and reset. Hair is gathered into separate bundles, each bound with string. Multiple sections stitched together.

Length 24 cm
Width 19 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1927
Other Number 122 - Other Number

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