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Object Number 11-60-10/84003
Display Title Dance Charms
Descriptions
Object Description Deer Skin Dance charms. 2 rare deer heads. May have been used in doctoring.
Inventory Description Ornaments, fawn head, neck skin, grass stuffed, tied at end of neck w/ leather
Classification
  • Shaft, modified
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Karuk
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California / Del Norte County
Additional Geographic Terms General; Klamath River region
Dimensions Overall: 26.2 x 7.1 x 5.3 cm (10 5/16 x 2 13/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 84003
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (1911 - 1911)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1911)

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