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Object Number
07-47-10/72350
Display Title
Loon skin headdress
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Headdress, loon skin with feathers, carved and pigmented wooden bill
Classification
- Headdress
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Nunatagmiut
- Nunatarmiut
- Nigaluk
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
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North Slope Burough
Additional Geographic Terms
Point Barrow, east of, Mountains inland from coast
Materials
Skin, Feather, Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 35.7 x 44.7 x 3 cm (14 1/16 x 17 5/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
72350
Provenance
Collector
Dr. George P. Howe
(1906-1907)
Donor
Dr. George P. Howe
(1907)
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