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Slat Armor
Object Number 06-5-10/66329
Display Title Slat Armor
Descriptions
Indigenous Term KinL'its'
Object Description Slat armor, old
Inventory Description Armor, breast plate, leather, meadow sweat rods bound with iris fiber cord
Classification
  • Breastplate
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hupa
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Materials Fiber, Hide
Dimensions Overall: 51 x 42 x 8 cm (20 1/16 x 16 9/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 66329
Provenance
Provenance Canyon Tom (1906)
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (1906 - 1906)
Dealer Dick Baldie
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1906 - 1906)

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