Headdress

NA11766

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

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA11766
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 | Star House
Section American
Materials Scalp | String
Description

Ceremonial headdress. One of the whole scalp taken during the Yakuan invasion at Sitka; once destroyed by insects and made over.

Length 27.3 cm
Width 24.3 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1927
Other Number 140 - Other Number

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