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Object Number 72-20-10/7101
Display Title Bladder float
Descriptions
Inventory Description Float, seal skin, red/black painted design, heavy coiled rope at top, bark bag
Classification
  • Float
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Makah
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Dimensions Overall: 15 x 78 x 34 cm (5 7/8 x 30 11/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 7101; unreadable script on float
Provenance
Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1872)

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