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Narrow headband of cased squirrel skin ornamented with rosettes or bows of cut buckskin painted red.
Narrow headband of cased squirrel skin ornamented with rosettes or bows of cut buckskin painted red.
Object Number 15-36-10/86594
Display Title Narrow headband of cased squirrel skin ornamented with rosettes or bows of cut buckskin painted red.
Descriptions
Object Description Narrow headband of squirrel skin ornamented with rosettes or bows of cut buckskin painted red.
Inventory Description Headband, squirrel skin with fringed buckskin ornaments, sewn with buckskin.
Classification
  • Headband
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Squirrel skin Buckskin Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 31.5 x 12 x 1.4 cm (12 3/8 x 4 3/4 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 86594
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (?)
Collector James A. Teit

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