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Object Number 2004.29.3267
Display Title Barren landscape with a slanted long pole sticking up, bear skull at the end
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Nascapee Indians, Algonquian. / # II No. 3 Bear skull on pole - Upper Assiwaban River 1910. / Gift of W.B. Cabot. Marlboro Street Boston, 1909."
Keywords
  • Ceremony
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Animal
  • Skull
Department Photographic
Date 1910
Artist William Brooks Cabot
Culture
  • Naskapi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Additional Geographic Terms Subarctic shield and Mackenzie Borderland; Kogaluk River
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 7.62 cm (4 x 3 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by William Brooks Cabot

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