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Object Number
04-28-10/64038
Display Title
Dress, shredded bark
Descriptions
Object Description
Ceremonial dress, shredded maple bark. Also work dress. Its also interpreted as an everyday dress for a young girl.
Inventory Description
Bark dress, shredded bark woven at top, cloth ties
Classification
- Raw Material
- Dress
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Yurok
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
California
Materials
Bark, Cotton, Oak?
Dimensions
Overall: 7.4 x 44 x 5 cm (2 15/16 x 17 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Exchange participant
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
(1904)
Collector
Dr. Alfred Louis Kroeber
(1902)
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