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Maker(s):Anonymous
Culture:Native American; Inuit
Title:"Headdress"/ Headpiece
Date Made:1800s-present
Type:Adornment
Materials:ivory (walrus)
Place Made:United States; Alaska; Inuit Nunangat (Northern Canada--Nunavut, northern Ontario, Newfoundland, Labrador, Northwest Territories); Northern Alaska and Little Diomede Island
Accession Number:  SC 1960.150
Credit Line:Gift of Charlotte Heussy McAllister, class of 1930
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Not on view

Description:
This Inuit "headdress" or headpiece is made out of carved walrus tusk (ivory) beads, links, "panels," and dangling animal (whale, bird, walrus head, and bear) fetishes. Faint carved circles can be seen on the top horizontal piece (in between the walrus heads). AP2018

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