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Object Number 99-12-10/53030
Display Title Hair Plates (Mens)
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ornament, leather strap threaded through perforated silver discs
Classification
  • Accessory
Department Ethnographic
Date mid 19th Century
Culture
  • Comanche?
  • Plains
  • Kiowa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Dimensions Overall: 162 x 9 x 0.3 cm (63 3/4 x 3 9/16 x 1/8 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 99-12-10/53030
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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