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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-59192, described as Feathered. Eagle feathers wrapped with red strouding set into red print cotton-covered felt cap; 2 buffalo horns; narrow beaded browband; metal bells; single trail of the 2 cloths with bells; and a string of glass beads and shells attached.
Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-59193, described as Feathered. Painted feathers wrapped with red yarn and set with leather on felt cap; white fluffy feathers at attachments; green, yellow, blue fluff-type feathers on crown with 2 pheasant feathers; white buckskin, red fluff-type feathers and horsehair at tips of painted feathers; white, red, blue beaded browband; abalone shells with blue beads at sides, and 3 ermine skins pendant from each.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-10057a-c, described as Swept back" type. (a) Eagle feathers tipped/yellow down and red hair; felt cap; red felt-seized rawhide sockets; quill; pink down on crown; blue, red, dark blue on white glass "seed" beaded buckskin brow band. Looped sinew ornament on left side; aqua down; from either side a white down pendant and buckskin lacing. (b and c) Silk ribbon streamers in dark blue, pink and ecru detached for conservation treatment.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-59196, described as Feathered. Eagle feathers wrapped with white cotton and red yarn, set in leather on felt cap; tipped with white fur; 5 eagle feathers on crown of cap; tan corduroy browband with 5 abalone shell buttons; brown buckskin fringe; single brown buckskin trail.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-5483, described as Circular copper disk; mounted on beaded rawhide; pendant fur strips; two dangling beaded strips with weasel skins.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-45410, described as Felt cap covered with strips of rabbit fur, patches stained yellow, traces of green fluff at front. Crown with 2 split polished horns attached to interior hide strip. Purple feathers and green-gray fluff in between and at base of horns. Multicolored silk grosgrain (?) ribbons bound to left horn tip. Ten "ermine tails" of rabbit fur sewn about a cord, red felt seized, with black hair tips; fringes at sides.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-45413, described as Felt cap with browband of multicolor glass beads, strip of brownish rabbit fur with red stain. Red felt seized sockets with orange and green fluff; turkey feathers with 2 rectangles of rabbit fur at mid-shaft and tip; both sides; red fluff and horsehair tips; yellow paint traces. Quill tipped with green fluff; red and white fur, split white feathers on crown. Back with 12 "ermine tails" of white deer hair with black hair tips on either side of "ermine tails".
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-33528, described as Eagle feathers; tipped with scalp locks; based on green felt hat; bead headband (red/ purple/ pink/ green/ light blue ground); 2 brass buttons; red wool trailer.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-66138, described as Feathered. Foundation is brown European felt hat, eagle feathers wrapped with red strouding attached with rawhide thongs, dyed red fluff feathers glued to tips of eagle feathers (some missing), narrow buckskin thong (broken) laced through eagle feathers. Beaded browband of black wool and white cotton cloth, blue and yellow glass seed beads in circle design on beaded white background.

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