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NA11750

From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA11750
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tlingit
Provenience United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Culture Area Northwest Coast Culture Area
Locus Sitka Kaagwaantaan Clan | Wolf House?
Section American
Materials Human Hair (uncertain) | Sinew | Feather | Hide | Cloth
Description

"Hair of Taxca" (probably a Kaagwaantaan prince, Wolf House). Gray and brown human hair arranged on a sinew netting attached to a circular frame wrapped with brown and black, plaid cloth.. Red feather ornamentation.

Width 19.1 cm
Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1926
Other Number 123 - Other Number

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