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Object Number 2004.24.30145
Display Title Frontlet with fur train (chief's ceremonial headdress)
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Mask and Headdress
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Headdress
Department Photographic
Date 1982
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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