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Object Number 10-21-10/76732
Display Title Girl's necklace
Descriptions
Object Description Girl's necklace. Looks like headband worn during Klamath/Modoc mourning ritual or puberty ritual.
Inventory Description Necklace, braided strands of grass, wrapped with grass, looped ends
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Modoc
  • Achumawi
  • Klamath
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Materials Grass
Dimensions Overall: 53.2 x 3.5 x 2.7 cm (20 15/16 x 1 3/8 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 76732
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (01/01/1910)
Collector Mr. Carroll S. Hartman (1/1/1910)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (01/01/1910)

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