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Medicine man's whale bone seat, used when treating sick
Medicine man's whale bone seat, used when treating sick
Object Number 20-9-10/87553
Display Title Medicine man's whale bone seat, used when treating sick
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved whale vertebra seat, form of bird, anthropomorphic face on back
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Stool
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 23 x 68 x 38.5 cm (9 1/16 x 26 3/4 x 15 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 20-9-10/87553
Provenance
Collector Henry Moses (?)
Donor Mrs. W. Scott Fitz (1920)

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