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Object Number 90-17-10/48402
Display Title Fish skin thread
Descriptions
Inventory Description Thread, hank of stiff fish skin thread
Classification
  • Thread
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Northwest Coast
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska?
Materials Fishskin
Dimensions Overall: 10.5 x 8 x 3 cm (4 1/8 x 3 1/8 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 48402
Provenance
Donor American Antiquarian Society (1890)

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