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Object Number:

40700F

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Calusa

Provenience:

Florida
Southwest Coast
Key Marco

Culture Area:

Southeast

Date Made:

700-1560 AD

Early Date:

700

Late Date:

1560

Section:

American

Materials:

Wood
Pigment

Iconography:

Wolf Head

Description:

F= PL Shoulder Attachment. Spiritedly carved figure head of wolf with ear and shoulder attachments. For use in dramatic dance ceremonials. Features and face marks painted in white, black and pink. Found bundled and swathed in green palmetto strips.

Other Number:

575

Other Number

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Fourteen Eyes in a Museum Storeroom (05 Feb 1952 - 31 Mar 1952)

Man and Animals: Living, Working and Changing Together (04 Oct 1984 - 30 Mar 1985)

Bibliography:

[Catalogue] University Museum. 1984. Man and Animals; Living Working and Changing Together. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 31

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