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Headdress

MOA: University of British Columbia

3051/6

Bear claw headdress. Thick leather strip, stitched at the ends with 13 long, curved bear claws sewn on with sinew at their proximal ends. Distal ends are blunted and a small hole has been bored through each tip for cotton string to pass through, connecting the claws to each other in a circle. Several claws have come unattached to the string, and several are missing.

  • Type of Item headdress
  • Culture Gitxsan
  • Material bear claw, leather skin, cotton fibre, sinew
  • Measurements height 8.0 cm, diameter 26.0 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Barbara Robertson, Alexander C. Robertson
  • Received from Alexander C. Robertson
  • Made in British Columbia
  • Collected in Hazelton
  • Ownership Date before December 22, 2010, before February 19, 2014
  • Acquisition Date on February 19, 2014
  • Condition fair
  • Accession Number 3051/0006

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