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Object Number 99-12-30/53168
Display Title Wreath-shaped headdress
Descriptions
Inventory Description Feather head band, black, red, yellow feathers on string-wrapped wood.
Classification
  • Headband
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1858
Culture
  • Arawak
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Guyana
South America / British Guiana
Materials Feather, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 24 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm (9 7/16 x 8 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Collector Francis W. Cragin
Donor David Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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