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Object Number 15-26-10/86111
Display Title Paint-brush case and 3 porcupine hair brushes (tying design)
Descriptions
Object Description Paint-brush case and 3 porcupine hair brushes (tying design); twined spruce root pouch alternates closed with open work panels; paint brush case of finely woven spruce root ornamented in bands of colored grass in the tying design, the ends are of hide, containing three paint brushes, handles of wood, brushes of porcupine hair, wrapped with spruce root.
Inventory Description Pouch, woven grass, leather ends, yellow and brown geometric design, mended
Classification
  • Pouch
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Wrangell Borough / Wrangell
Dimensions Overall: 34.7 x 8.5 x 1.7 cm (13 11/16 x 3 3/8 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 4
Label on object 04-10-10/63005.
Provenance
Owner Chief Shakes
Collector Lt. George Thornton Emmons (1914)
Donor Lt. George Thornton Emmons (1915)

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