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View full screenMan's headdress, of tanned caribou skin mounted with seventeen grizzly bears' claws, the edge of the skin band overstitched with quills: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Dene, c. 1859
A.480.6
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Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
c. 1859
Subarctic, Dene
Tłı̨chǫ
Athapaskan
Tanned caribou skin band mounted with seventeen bears' claws; edge of the skin band overstitched with quills
Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
Hudson's Bay Company
Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
The Athabaskans: Strangers of the North. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1974. Exhibition catalogue from 'An international travelling exhibition from the collection of the National Museum of Man, Canada, and the Royal Scottish Museum'. cat. no. 206
Idiens, Dale, A catalogue of Northern Athapaskan Indian artefacts in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Art and Archaeology 3, March 1979
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