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Object Number
08-4-10/73354
Display Title
Etched hair pins
Descriptions
Object Description
Women's hair pins used to fasten headband.
Inventory Description
Ornaments, carved bone pins, long and flat, tapered at ends, incised/pigmented
Classification
- Ornament
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Karuk
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
California
Additional Geographic Terms
Upper Klamath River
Materials
Bone, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 10.5 x 0.9 x 0.2 cm (4 1/8 x 3/8 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity
6
Label on object
73354
Provenance
Collector
Grace A. Nicholson
(1908)
Collector
Mr. Carroll S. Hartman
(1908)
Owner
Old Captain
(1908)
Donor
Donated by
Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow
(1908)
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