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Object Number
07-8-10/75325
Display Title
Hair rats, forms over which the women do their hair
Descriptions
Object Description
Hair rats, forms over which the women do their hair
Inventory Description
Ornament, hair rolls or rats, black, coarse, human hair
Classification
- Ornament
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Western Arctic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Alaska
/
North Slope Burough
/
Flaxman Island?
Materials
Human hair
Dimensions
Overall: 20.2 x 5.5 x 4 cm (7 15/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
75325
Provenance
Collector
Prof. Vilhjalmur Stefansson
(1907)
Expedition
Anglo-American Polar Expedition
(1907)
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