Headdress

Museum number:
2-5194
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
2 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Central Plains
Culture or time period:
Umoⁿhoⁿ
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Materials:
Feather (material)
Taxon:
Accipitridae
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
War bonnet. Worn in battle and on ceremonial occasions; displays war honors.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 96 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: 13/95; 13/98; 13/99. Published: Plate 55, p. 441. Exhibited: UCLMA, "Plains Indians", 1971. References: "The Omaha Tribe", BAE 27, Fletcher & LaFlesche, p. 446-448. War bonnet. Worn in battle and on ceremonial occasions; displays war honors.
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 9 titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.Hearst Museum object 2 of 9 titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.Hearst Museum object 3 of 9 titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.Hearst Museum object 4 of 9 titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.Hearst Museum object 5 of 9 titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.Hearst Museum object 6 of 9 titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.Hearst Museum object 7 of 9 titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.Hearst Museum object 8 of 9 titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.Hearst Museum object 9 of 9 titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-5194, described as Made of weasel skins and eagle feathers arranged as a crown about the head and falling down the back; quilling; red seed beads; and fringed buckskin trailer painted in geometric designs in green/orange/yellow/blue.

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