Headband

Museum number:
2-61603
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3323
Description:
Beaded, backed with pink silk; light blue ground with 3 teepee-like designs separated by 2 geometric designs in varicolored glass seed beads; red silk rosette with elk tooth and golden beads attached at one end; metal hook and cotton eye fasteners. Metal beads and cotton thread.
Donor:
Virginia Vail
Collection place:
Wind River Reservation, Wind River, Wind River County
Verbatim coll. place:
Wyoming; Wind River Reservation
Culture or time period:
Eastern Shoshone
Collector:
James K. Moore Sr.
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headbands (headgear)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 5 centimeters and length 57.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 titled Headband, accession number 2-61603, described as Beaded, backed with pink silk; light blue ground with 3 teepee-like designs separated by 2 geometric designs in varicolored glass seed beads; red silk rosette with elk tooth and golden beads attached at one end; metal hook and cotton eye fasteners. Metal beads and cotton thread.Hearst Museum object 2 of 6 titled Headband, accession number 2-61603, described as Beaded, backed with pink silk; light blue ground with 3 teepee-like designs separated by 2 geometric designs in varicolored glass seed beads; red silk rosette with elk tooth and golden beads attached at one end; metal hook and cotton eye fasteners. Metal beads and cotton thread.Hearst Museum object 3 of 6 titled Headband, accession number 2-61603, described as Beaded, backed with pink silk; light blue ground with 3 teepee-like designs separated by 2 geometric designs in varicolored glass seed beads; red silk rosette with elk tooth and golden beads attached at one end; metal hook and cotton eye fasteners. Metal beads and cotton thread.Hearst Museum object 4 of 6 titled Headband, accession number 2-61603, described as Beaded, backed with pink silk; light blue ground with 3 teepee-like designs separated by 2 geometric designs in varicolored glass seed beads; red silk rosette with elk tooth and golden beads attached at one end; metal hook and cotton eye fasteners. Metal beads and cotton thread.Hearst Museum object 5 of 6 titled Headband, accession number 2-61603, described as Beaded, backed with pink silk; light blue ground with 3 teepee-like designs separated by 2 geometric designs in varicolored glass seed beads; red silk rosette with elk tooth and golden beads attached at one end; metal hook and cotton eye fasteners. Metal beads and cotton thread.Hearst Museum object 6 of 6 titled Headband, accession number 2-61603, described as Beaded, backed with pink silk; light blue ground with 3 teepee-like designs separated by 2 geometric designs in varicolored glass seed beads; red silk rosette with elk tooth and golden beads attached at one end; metal hook and cotton eye fasteners. Metal beads and cotton thread.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headband, accession number 2-61603, described as Beaded, backed with pink silk; light blue ground with 3 teepee-like designs separated by 2 geometric designs in varicolored glass seed beads; red silk rosette with elk tooth and golden beads attached at one end; metal hook and cotton eye fasteners. Metal beads and cotton thread.

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