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Cape of down and cedar bark
Image Not Available for Cape of down and cedar bark
Object Number 05-7-10/65580
Display Title Cape of down and cedar bark
Descriptions
Inventory Description Down feather cape, square.
Classification
  • Cape
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kwakwaka'wakw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia / Vancouver Island
Materials Feather
Dimensions Overall: 8 x 120 x 88 cm (3 1/8 x 47 1/4 x 34 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1905)

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