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Object Number 10-21-10/76752
Display Title Girl's puberty dance rattle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Stick, carved and segmented one end, painted, broken
Classification
  • Stick
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Karuk
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Additional Geographic Terms Pitt River Indians Beer's collection
Materials Mock Orange
Dimensions Overall: 104 x 5 x 3.5 cm (40 15/16 x 1 15/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 10-21-10/76752; 76752 / Girl's puberty dance / rattle / Karok Indians / Calif; P
Provenance
Collector Isaac Abner Beers (1880)
Collector Mr. Carroll S. Hartman (1910)
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (1910 - 1910)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1910 - 1910)

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