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Ritual headdress, prior to 1804
Ritual headdress, prior to 1804
Number
МАЭ № 536-22/1
Title
Ritual headdress
Ethnicity
Kodiak Eskimos
Date
prior to 1804
Expedition
Russian circumnavigations and half round-the-world sea expeditions
Collectors-person
Material
sealskin, sinew, puffin beaks, caribou hair, porcupine quills, skin from sea lion, woolen thread, paint
Dimensions
height at the front 37.5 cm and back 43 cm, diameter 20 cm, width at the highest part 8.5 cm
Annotation
Several publications have mistakenly identified this headgear as Aleut.
Corpus
Ethnography of America
Albums
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