Strands which refuse to be braided: Hair samples from Beatrice Blackwood's Ojibwe collection at the Pitt Rivers museum

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 75-96

  Peers, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hair; Museum anthropology; Source communities

Indexed keywords

HAIR;

EID: 0037233245     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359183503008001763     Document Type: Article

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