Wooden Visor

Item number E74344-0 from the National Museum of Natural History.

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Provenience note: collection apparently purchased or collected by McLean in Sitka and vicinity circa 1884.From card: "Wooden slab cut from the solid and given an oval shape by parallel grooves cut in parallel on reverse and by securing the ends at back with rawhide thong. Excavation on reverse for nose, and slotted at top for vision, perforated for breathing. Unfinished. Carved in stylistically on left side only, which is also painted in vermillion and black. See: "Primitive American Armor", by Walter Hough. Report, U.S.N.M. for 1893, pp. 625-651."