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Object Number 987-16-10/71164
Display Title Ankle Dance Ornament
Descriptions
Object Description Ankle dance ornament. Hide - lower 2/3 of width cut into fringe, upper 1/3 painted with narrow red & blue linear patterns. Tips of fringe painted red. Hide strips for tying at ankle stitched on at upper edge of reverse.
Inventory Description Ornament, band with fringe and ties, leather painted red, blue and white
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Naskapi?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Dimensions Overall: 18.5 x 25.5 cm (7 5/16 x 10 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 987-16-10/71164
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James Hawks in memory of her husband, James Dudley Hawks II, Class of 1943
Provenance
Collector Edward Allerton Hawks (1910-1916)
Donor Mrs. James Dudley Hawks (9/23/1987)

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