Headdress
| Object Number: | NA5780 |
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| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Tlingit |
| Provenience: | Alaska |
| Culture Area: | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Bear Hide Bear Fur |
| Height: | 17.5 cm |
| Length: | 19 cm |
| Width: | 3 cm |
| Credit Line: | Wanamaker Expedtion to the Northwest Coast, Louis Shotridge, 1917 |
Description
Headdress made from an untanned, stiff piece of bear hide with black fur on one side. The hide is shaped as a two tall hump that narrow toward the center and join and also narrow toward the opposite ends. Fragments of animal hide straps are attached to the outer, lower edges.
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