Headdress
NA11767
From: United States of America | Alaska | Southeast Alaska | Sitka (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
Object Number | NA11767 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Tlingit |
Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Southeast Alaska | Sitka (uncertain) |
Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
Locus | Sitka Kaagwaantaan Clan? |
Section | American |
Materials | Scalp | Wool | String |
Description | Ceremonial headdress. Scalp of "Djaksan." Scalp of one of the early skippers on a trading ship. Had fallen loose, and reset. Hair is gathered into separate bundles, each bound with string. Multiple sections stitched together. |
Length | 24 cm |
Width | 19 cm |
Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1927 |
Other Number | 122 - Other Number |
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