Headdress

Museum number:
2-16727
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.770
Description:
Womans dance headdress of white reindeer hair, red dyed dog fur, bleached depilatated sealskin, spotted seal fur, trade textile woolens and beads. Very fragile (extensive hair loss).
Donor:
Margaret Lantis
Collection place:
Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Bethel Census Area
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Nunivak Island; Mekoryuk
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
Margaret Lantis
Collection date:
1940
Taxon:
Rangifer tarandus caribou
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Accession date:
1940
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-16727, described as Womans dance headdress of white reindeer hair, red dyed dog fur, bleached depilatated sealskin, spotted seal fur, trade textile woolens and beads. Very fragile (extensive hair loss).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-16727, described as Womans dance headdress of white reindeer hair, red dyed dog fur, bleached depilatated sealskin, spotted seal fur, trade textile woolens and beads. Very fragile (extensive hair loss).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-16727, described as Womans dance headdress of white reindeer hair, red dyed dog fur, bleached depilatated sealskin, spotted seal fur, trade textile woolens and beads. Very fragile (extensive hair loss).

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