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Object Number 06-5-10/66468
Display Title Dance clapper
Descriptions
Inventory Description Percussion, dance clapper, carved wood, incised/pigmented zoomorphic faces
Classification
  • Percussion
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kwakwaka'wakw
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials Wood, Rawhide
Dimensions Overall: 24.6 x 5.2 x 4.1 cm (9 11/16 x 2 1/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 06-5-10/66468
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (1906)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1906)

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