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Bird skin
Object Number 93-14-10/49708
Display Title Bird skin
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bird-skin with feathers, inverted (skin on outside)
Classification
  • Faunal
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Greenland Eskimo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Greenland
Additional Geographic Terms Arctic highlands
Materials Bird skin, Feather
Dimensions Overall: 17.6 x 6.5 x 1.8 cm (6 15/16 x 2 9/16 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 49708 Inverted\bird skin & POISON
Provenance
Provenance Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary (1892)

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