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Object Number 15-36-10/86383
Display Title Pubescent girl's paint pouch of buckskin, fringed. Bone drinking tube attached.
Descriptions
Object Description Pubescent girl's paint pouch of buckskin, fringed. Bone drinking tube attached.
Inventory Description Pouch, buckskin, fringed, long strap, long bone tube attached, red/blue pigment
Classification
  • Pouch
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Dimensions Overall: 10.1 x 8.4 x 0.8 cm (4 x 3 5/16 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 86383
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (?)
Collector James A. Teit

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