Feathered. Painted feathers wrapped with red yarn and set with leather on felt cap; white fluffy feathers at attachments; green, yellow, blue fluff-type feathers on crown with 2 pheasant feathers; white buckskin, red fluff-type feathers and horsehair at tips of painted feathers; white, red, blue beaded browband; abalone shells with blue beads at sides, and 3 ermine skins pendant from each.
Donor:
Machinery Credit Corporation
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Ralph K. Davies
Collection date:
Before 1971
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 24 centimeters, length 37 centimeters, and height 56 centimeters