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Whale line
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Object Number 08-4-10/72944
Display Title Whale line
Descriptions
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Quileute
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Washington
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (June, 1908)

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