Headdress

Museum number:
2-6711
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
x-2904 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.167
Description:
Leather headband with sewn-on varicolored glass seed beads; brass headpiece to go over the top of the head attached by 5 buttons to a leather band; beaded fringe.
Donor:
Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
Collection place:
Southeast Alaska
Verbatim coll. place:
Alaska; Southeast Alaska
Culture or time period:
Alaskan Eskimo
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1904
Materials:
Leather
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
Probably headdress for "Inviting-in-Dance/Festival.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 20.2 centimeters
Comment:
Context of use: Cf. ICOM, Vol. 28, No. 2/3, Nov. 1975, p. 77. See acc. env. for copy of notice. Conservation: BAVON ASAK 520S on leather; BAVON ASAK ABP 20% MMS. References: see above; cf. Nelson pp. 358-59.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 5 titled Headdress, accession number 2-6711, described as Leather headband with sewn-on varicolored glass seed beads; brass headpiece to go over the top of the head attached by 5 buttons to a leather band; beaded fringe.Hearst Museum object 2 of 5 titled Headdress, accession number 2-6711, described as Leather headband with sewn-on varicolored glass seed beads; brass headpiece to go over the top of the head attached by 5 buttons to a leather band; beaded fringe.Hearst Museum object 3 of 5 titled Headdress, accession number 2-6711, described as Leather headband with sewn-on varicolored glass seed beads; brass headpiece to go over the top of the head attached by 5 buttons to a leather band; beaded fringe.Hearst Museum object 4 of 5 titled Headdress, accession number 2-6711, described as Leather headband with sewn-on varicolored glass seed beads; brass headpiece to go over the top of the head attached by 5 buttons to a leather band; beaded fringe.Hearst Museum object 5 of 5 titled Headdress, accession number 2-6711, described as Leather headband with sewn-on varicolored glass seed beads; brass headpiece to go over the top of the head attached by 5 buttons to a leather band; beaded fringe.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-6711, described as Leather headband with sewn-on varicolored glass seed beads; brass headpiece to go over the top of the head attached by 5 buttons to a leather band; beaded fringe.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-6711, described as Leather headband with sewn-on varicolored glass seed beads; brass headpiece to go over the top of the head attached by 5 buttons to a leather band; beaded fringe.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-6711, described as Leather headband with sewn-on varicolored glass seed beads; brass headpiece to go over the top of the head attached by 5 buttons to a leather band; beaded fringe.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-6711, described as Leather headband with sewn-on varicolored glass seed beads; brass headpiece to go over the top of the head attached by 5 buttons to a leather band; beaded fringe.

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