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Object Number
00-9-70/55800
Display Title
Head dress, bleached human hair. shell band with top piece
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Headdress, dark blue cloth band, two rows of silver shells attached with thread through small perforations, cord ties at either end of cloth band
Classification
- Headdress
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Samoa
Materials
Cloth , Shell , Cord , Thread
Dimensions
Overall (cord ties excluded): 34 × 4.6 × 1.7 cm (13 3/8 × 1 13/16 × 11/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Donor
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
(1900)
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