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Bark headdress
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Bark headdress

Artist
Datelate 19th century
Location where collectedBritish Columbia, Canada
MediumRed cedar bark, cotton thread
ClassificationsCostume
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number1910.1.22
DescriptionRed cedar head ring made of horizontal bark stips with fringed bark attached with dark brown cotton thread. There are eight folded and squared decorative flaps fastened onto the top of the band, with four fringed bows made of strips sewn horizontally at two points each onto continous mid points of the band itself. All decoration has been seperately sewn onto the band. The inside of the head ring consists of a single horizontal bark strip sewn together.
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