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.
Donor:
Machinery Credit Corporation
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes and Pueblo tribes
Collector:
Ralph K. Davies
Collection date:
Before 1971
Taxon:
Bison bison
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 132 centimeters, length 29 centimeters, and height 40 centimeters