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NA1219A
From: Alaska | Cape Prince of Wales
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA1219A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Eskimo |
| Provenience | Alaska | Cape Prince of Wales |
| Culture Area | Arctic Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Wood | Skin |
| Description | Body made from a single piece of wood. The neck has four frets. Wooden tuning peg with three strings of animal hide. The front has red lines painted across. Crescent carving in the middle, circular carving at the bottom. The reverse has horizontal red lines painted on the upper portion. X shape in the lower portion. Two removable circular panels. |
| Credit Line | Alaska Ethnological Expedition, George Byron Gordon, 1905 |
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