Hair ornaments

Museum number:
1-934
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
2934 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.19
Description:
Pair of hair ties/ornaments. Leather with juniper berry, beargrass and glass bead fringe. At end of fringe are cut oblong abalone shells. Glass beads include blue and red beads.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Hoopa Valley, Humboldt County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Humboldt; Hoopa Valley
Culture or time period:
Hupa
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
July 29, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Hair ornaments
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies
Accession date:
December 7, 1901
Context of use:
For the hair.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Loans:
S1979-1980 #72: Hoopa Tribal Museum (June 23, 1980–January 23, 1981)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Hair ornaments, accession number 1-934, described as Pair of hair ties/ornaments. Leather with juniper berry, beargrass and glass bead fringe. At end of fringe are cut oblong abalone shells. Glass beads include blue and red beads.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hair ornaments, accession number 1-934, described as Pair of hair ties/ornaments. Leather with juniper berry, beargrass and glass bead fringe. At end of fringe are cut oblong abalone shells. Glass beads include blue and red beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hair ornaments, accession number 1-934, described as Pair of hair ties/ornaments. Leather with juniper berry, beargrass and glass bead fringe. At end of fringe are cut oblong abalone shells. Glass beads include blue and red beads.

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