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Fish skin hood
Object Number 04-10-10/63580
Display Title Fish skin hood
Descriptions
Inventory Description Hood, fish skin, fur edging, tie at crown
Classification
  • Headwear
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bering Strait Eskimo?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska?
Additional Geographic Terms Bering Straits?
Materials Fishskin, Animal fur, Hide
Dimensions Overall: 49 x 48 cm (19 5/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 63580
Provenance
Collector Unknown (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1904)

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