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Object Number 69-20-10/1263
Display Title Wooden visor
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden visor. High status item. Chief's visor with caribou on volute. Front end of hat restored. 1 seal bristle and bead on one ivory "ring" and all the bristles and beads on opposite ring. Also, glass bead and loop on one side of hat. Curved lines on top represent teeth.
Inventory Description Visor, carved and bent wood, three ivory ornaments with animal and other decorations, glass beads, mammal whiskers at back, painted designs
Classification
  • Visor
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Alutiiq?
  • Russian Era
  • Pacific Eskimo
  • Unangan?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Kodiak Island Borough
Dimensions Overall (Measurement does not include whiskers): 22 × 41 × 18.5 cm (8 11/16 × 16 1/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 1263
Provenance
Collector Unknown
Donor Boston Marine Society (1869)

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