Figure drawn on skin

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Object Number 11-2-10/83842

Display Title Figure drawn on skin

Descriptions

Inventory Description Drawing, anthropomorphic figure drawn on skin flap, black pigment, sinew frags

Classification

Drawing

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Tlingit?

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / United States / Alaska

Additional Geographic Terms Alaska, Southern

Materials Skin, Pigment

Dimensions Overall: 13.6 x 9.7 cm (5 3/8 x 3 13/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 11-2-10/83842

Provenance

Collector Lt. Selim E. Woodworth (1880)

Donor Dr. William McMichael Woodworth (1911)

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