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Image Not Available for Implement for scraping iris leaves for fiber
Implement for scraping iris leaves for fiber
Image Not Available for Implement for scraping iris leaves for fiber
Object Number 08-4-10/73353
Display Title Implement for scraping iris leaves for fiber
Descriptions
Indigenous Term ish-u-wah
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Karuk
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Additional Geographic Terms Klamath River, Upper; Salmon River
Provenance
Provenance Mr. Carroll S. Hartman (1908)
Provenance Grace A. Nicholson (1908)

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Iris fibre, from bag 06-5-10/66502
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Floral
California?
Cordage for nets, etc., made of iris macrouphon
06-5-10/66339 Cordage for nets, etc., made of iris macrouphon
Fishing and trapping
California
Conical hat, made of a layer of leaves with a layer of vegetable fiber strips on
976-56-70/5497 Conical hat, made of a layer of leaves with a layer of vegetable fiber strips on
Hat
Borneo
Borneo
Faunal material; clump of vegetable fiber; strips of bark; twig; berries; leaves
2003.1.403 Faunal material; clump of vegetable fiber; strips of bark; twig; berries; leaves
Floral
Africa?
Hat, conical, sewn leaves, 3 layers, red with buff stripes, vegetable fiber cord
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Hat
Bougainville Island
!U and Norna in the shade of green leaves
2001.29.10117 !U and Norna in the shade of green leaves
Mangetti Forest
Two wrapped tubes containing drugs?   vegetable fiber leaves
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Accessory
Raw Material
Venezuela
Leaves of agave prepared for fiber for making bags
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Floral
Peru
Iri - fan
00-8-70/55320 Iri - fan
Fan
Fiji
Iri - fan
00-8-70/55321 Iri - fan
Fan
Fiji
!U and Norna in the shade of green leaves
2001.29.10116 !U and Norna in the shade of green leaves
Mangetti Forest
!U and Norna sitting in the shade of green leaves
2001.29.10118 !U and Norna sitting in the shade of green leaves
Mangetti Forest