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Object Number
99-12-30/53167
Display Title
Feather headdress
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Headdress, yellow feathers on basketry base, pendant feather tufts
Classification
- Headdress
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1858
Culture
- Arawak?
- Carib?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America
Materials
Feather, Reed, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 40 x 31 x 3 cm (15 3/4 x 12 3/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
53167
Credit Line
Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Donor
David Kimball
Donor
Augusta K. Horton
Donor
L. Cushing Kimball
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