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Object Number 53-47-30/7508
Display Title Bark cloth headdress
Descriptions
Object Description Bark cloth headdress
Inventory Description Bark cloth headdress
Classification
  • Headdress
Department Ethnographic
Date ca 1940s-1950s
Culture
  • Yukuna
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Colombia / Amazonas
Additional Geographic Terms Miriti Paraná, Upper; Rio Caquetá, affluent of; Comisaria del Amazonas
Materials Barkcloth
Dimensions Overall: 46 x 23 x 3 cm (18 1/8 x 9 1/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53-47-30/7508
Provenance
Collector Dr. Richard Evans Schultes (1953)

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