Headdress

Museum number:
2-19097
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.854
Description:
Painted wood; 2 high topped human heads attached to leather band, each head has carved wood imitation of mountain goat horn above.
Donor:
Ellinor C. Davidson and George Davidson
Collection place:
Northwest Coast, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northwest Coast
Culture or time period:
Tlingit
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1945
Context of use:
Dance headdress.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 18.3 centimeters
Comment:
Remarks: cf. Inverarity, "Art of the Northwest Coast Indians", pl. 210 for Tlingit shaman's headdress of mountain goat horn with leather band. Also "The Art of the Shaman", Ronald Johnson (University of Iowa, 1973), fig. 3, shaman's headdress, Tlingit, borrowed from Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago).
Loans:
S1973-1974 #65: Oakland Museum of California (March 8, 1974–April 24, 1974)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 6 titled Headdress, accession number 2-19097, described as Painted wood; 2 high topped human heads attached to leather band, each head has carved wood imitation of mountain goat horn above.Hearst Museum object 2 of 6 titled Headdress, accession number 2-19097, described as Painted wood; 2 high topped human heads attached to leather band, each head has carved wood imitation of mountain goat horn above.Hearst Museum object 3 of 6 titled Headdress, accession number 2-19097, described as Painted wood; 2 high topped human heads attached to leather band, each head has carved wood imitation of mountain goat horn above.Hearst Museum object 4 of 6 titled Headdress, accession number 2-19097, described as Painted wood; 2 high topped human heads attached to leather band, each head has carved wood imitation of mountain goat horn above.Hearst Museum object 5 of 6 titled Headdress, accession number 2-19097, described as Painted wood; 2 high topped human heads attached to leather band, each head has carved wood imitation of mountain goat horn above.Hearst Museum object 6 of 6 titled Headdress, accession number 2-19097, described as Painted wood; 2 high topped human heads attached to leather band, each head has carved wood imitation of mountain goat horn above.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-19097, described as Painted wood; 2 high topped human heads attached to leather band, each head has carved wood imitation of mountain goat horn above.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-19097, described as Painted wood; 2 high topped human heads attached to leather band, each head has carved wood imitation of mountain goat horn above.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-19097, described as Painted wood; 2 high topped human heads attached to leather band, each head has carved wood imitation of mountain goat horn above.

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