Headband
NA8486
From: United States of America | Alaska | Sitka
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA8486 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Sitka |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Bead | Dentalium | Hide | Cotton |
| Description | Five-strand necklace made with shells and glass beads strung with cotton thread and animal hide. Rows of long dentalium shells are separated by different sequences of green, blue, red, and dark red glass beads. Segments of beads are separated from the shell by strips of hide. One end terminates in a braided cotton strap and the other end terminates in two braided cotton straps. |
| Length | 68 cm |
| Width | 3.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1918 |
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