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Bear skin spread out on ground and pinned down on edges with sticks
Bear skin spread out on ground and pinned down on edges with sticks
Object Number 2004.29.3281
Display Title Bear skin spread out on ground and pinned down on edges with sticks
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Nascapee Indians, Algonquian. / # II No. 45 Bear skin, Mistinipi 1906. / Gift of W. B. Cabot, Marlboro Street, Boston, 1919."
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Manufacture and General Utility
Subject
  • skin processing
Department Photographic
Date 1906
Artist William Brooks Cabot
Culture
  • Naskapi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada
Additional Geographic Terms Subarctic shield and Mackenzie Borderland; Mistinpi
Materials Gelatin silver print adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by William Brooks Cabot

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