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Object Number 32-49-50/87
Display Title Warrior's feather head-piece
Descriptions
Inventory Description Headdress, wood disc with feather quills looped through, creating tuft, 2 straps
Classification
  • Headdress
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Mende
  • Mano
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia / <State> / <County> / Ganta
Dimensions Overall: 30 x 32 x 7 cm (11 13/16 x 12 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Quantity 4
Label on object 32-49-50/87
Provenance
Collector Dr. George W. Harley (1932)
Seller Dr. George W. Harley (1932)

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