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Object Number 09-10-10/74554
Display Title Part of headdress, killer whale
Descriptions
Object Description Part of headdress, killer whale. There are sticks at the base, where there might have been a frame work of stick to attach to a fur hat.
Inventory Description Carved wooden ornament, whale head and fin, polychrome, with hair, string ties.
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Date 1833-1875?
Culture
  • Killerwhale Fin House?
  • Daklaweidi?
  • Angoon?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Dimensions Overall: 13.5 x 23 x 1.9 cm (5 5/16 x 9 1/16 x 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 09-10-10/74554
Provenance
Collector Lt. Selim E. Woodworth (Unknown)
Donor Dr. William McMichael Woodworth (01/01/1909)

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