Feathered stick
- Museum number:
- 1-596
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010000596
- Accession number:
- Acc.13
- Description:
- Feathered stick for "Bighead" headdress.
- Donor:
- John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Mendocino; Round Valley
- Culture or time period:
- Konkow (Northwestern Maidu)
- Collector:
- Dan Right and Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- July 16, 1901
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Accession date:
- August 1901
- Context of use:
- Bighead" headdress dance paraphernalia.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Comment:
- Remarks: Cat. Nos. 1-558 a-d, 561-589, and 591-628 are all parts of one headdress of this type usually known in the Sacramento Valley as "Bighead." For 1-558 to 629: the original nos. 2558 to 2629 are all the same in P.M. Jones notebook.
- Legacy documentation:
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