Headband

Museum number:

1-1527a,b

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Alternate number:

111 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.17 and Acc.86

Description:

Made of woodpecker feathers.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Northwestern California

Verbatim coll. place:

California

Culture or time period:

Hupa

Collector:

Alfred L. Kroeber

Collection date:

1901

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Headbands (headgear)

Function:

5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies

Accession date:

1903 and November 20, 1901

Context of use:

For forehead.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Loans:

S1975-1976 #43: California Academy of Sciences (December 16, 1975–March 23, 1978), S1984-1985 #46: Crocker Art Museum (June 7, 1985–November 18, 1985), and S1985-1986 #16: Palm Springs Desert Museum (November 18, 1985–March 18, 1986)

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