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Object Number 13-23-10/84680
Display Title Feather blanket
Descriptions
Inventory Description Brown and white feather blanket, banded design.
Classification
  • Blanket
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Date pre 1821
Culture
  • Maidu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Dimensions Overall: 143 x 116 x 2 cm (56 5/16 x 45 11/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector William Alden Gale (1821 ca.)
Donor Lucy H. Eaton (1913)

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