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Woman’s ceremonial headgear
Woman’s ceremonial headgear
Number
МАЭ № 536-14
Title
Woman’s ceremonial headgear
Ethnicity
Kodiak Eskimos
Expedition
Russian circumnavigations and half round-the-world sea expeditions
Collectors-person
Material
skin of cormorant, gullet of a sea lion, paint, porcupine quills, sinew, caribou hair, woolen thread, plant fiber
Dimensions
height 12.5 cm, diameter 20 cm, length including the protuberance 30 cm, length of the “tail” 33 cm
Annotation
Several publications have mistakenly identified this headgear as Aleut.
Corpus
Ethnography of America
Albums
Whale tendon—material for making thread, early 19th century
Woven hat. 19th c.