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Object Number 67-10-10/275
Display Title Helmet of wood
Descriptions
Object Description Helmet of wood. Representing bear with ears sewn on. This helmet is sculpted from wood and covered with the actual skin from a grizzly bear's head. Iron domes form the eyes, and opercula set in grooves imitate the bear's teeth. The ears supported wooden humanoid bear masks.
Inventory Description Hat, wood frame with bear skin head, teeth inlay, carved wooden bear in ear.
Classification
  • Hat
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Tlingit
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Alaska / Wrangell Borough / Wrangell?
North America / United States / Alaska / Petersburg?
Dimensions Overall: 36.83 × 25.4 × 19.69 cm (14 1/2 × 10 × 7 3/4 in.) Storage: 53.3401 × 36.4237 × 28.8926 cm (21 × 14 5/16 × 11 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 275
Provenance
Owner Chief Shakes
Collector Unknown (01/01/1790-01/01/1799?)
Donor Massachusetts Historical Society (01/01/1867)

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