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Hair skins hung to dry on poles
Object Number 2004.29.3335
Display Title Hair skins hung to dry on poles
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Algonquian. / #I No. 48. Hair skins. Mistinipi, 1906. / Nascapee Indians. / 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: 8.89 x 11.43 cm (3 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by William Brooks Cabot

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