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Object Name:
Whaler's hat
Media/Materials:
Cedar bark (Red cedar), cedar bark (yellow cedar), spruce root, bear grass, equisetum
Techniques:
Twined, wrap-twined
Dimensions:
22.5 x 25 cm
Object Type:
Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
Native Term:
uu-uutahpuk
Place:
Vancouver Island; British Columbia; Canada
Archipelago:
Vancouver Island Group
Island Name:
Vancouver Island
Date created:
1780-1794
Collection History:
Collected by Captain James Magee (1750-1801, of the ship "Margaret") in 1794; donated by him to the Massachusetts Historical Society soon afterward; transferred from the Massachusetts Historical Society to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, in 1867; acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Peabody Museum in 1929.
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