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Object Number 99-12-30/53165
Display Title Feather headdress
Descriptions
Inventory Description Feather headdresses or ornaments
Classification
  • Headdress
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Carib?
  • Arawak?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America
Dimensions Overall: 80 x 23 x 5 cm (31 1/2 x 9 1/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 53165
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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