Object Number | NA5780 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tlingit |
Provenience | Alaska |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Bear Hide | Bear Fur |
Description | Headdress made from an untanned, stiff piece of bear hide with black fur on one side. The hide is shaped as a two tall hump that narrow toward the center and join and also narrow toward the opposite ends. Fragments of animal hide straps are attached to the outer, lower edges. |
Height | 17.5 cm |
Length | 19 cm |
Width | 3 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917 |
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