John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Konkow (Northwestern Maidu)
Collector:
Dan Right and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
July 16, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Bighead" headdress dance paraphernalia.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Remarks: Cat. Nos. 1-558 a-d, 561-589, and 591-628 are all parts of one headdress of this type usually known in the Sacramento Valley as "Bighead." For 1-558 to 629: the original nos. 2558 to 2629 are all the same in P.M. Jones notebook.