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Object Number 974-16-10/52957.1
Display Title Interior dance screen. Serves as backdrop to dancing inside communal structures
Descriptions
Object Description Interior dance screen. Serves as backdrop to dancing inside communal structures
Inventory Description Carved wooden panels, painted zoomorphic design, pegged
Classification
  • Unclassified structure
Department Ethnographic
Date 1974
Artist Nathan Jackson
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Ketchikan Gateway / Ketchikan
Materials Pigment, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 262 x 28.5 x 4.1 cm (103 1/8 x 11 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 974-16-10/52957
Provenance
Collector Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1974 - 1974)

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