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Object Number 05-7-10/64946
Display Title Ermine skin medicine hat
Descriptions
Inventory Description Headdress, ermine, cow horn, feather and horsehair cap, long ermine extensions.
Classification
  • Headdress
  • Shaft, modified
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sioux?
  • Crow?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Dimensions Overall: 24 x 74 x 73 cm (9 7/16 x 29 1/8 x 28 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 05-7-10/64946 ; 64946
Provenance
Collector Coffeen-Schnitger Trading Company
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1905)

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