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Object Number 2004.29.3282
Display Title Animal skull on pole.
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Algonquian. / Skull on pole. Upper Assiwaban R. 1910. / Gift of W. B. Cabot, Marlboro Street, Boston, 1919."
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Ceremony
Subject
  • Pole
  • Animal
  • Skull
Department Photographic
Date 1910
Artist William Brooks Cabot
Culture
  • Naskapi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Manitoba
Additional Geographic Terms Subarctic shield and Mackenzie Borderland; Assiniboine River, upper
Dimensions Overall: 8.89 x 7.62 cm (3 1/2 x 3 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by William Brooks Cabot

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