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Object Number 38-44-10/12896
Display Title Scalp ornament--feather (eagle) in bone socket
Descriptions
Inventory Description Headdress, feather upright in bone cylinder carved, atop roach spreader
Classification
  • Headdress
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Dimensions Overall: 29.8 x 9 x 3.2 cm (11 3/4 x 3 9/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 38-44-10/12896
Provenance
Collector Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman (1888-1916)
Donor Mrs. Henry H. Richardson (1938)

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