Ornamented with weasel skins, ribbons, brass shells, feathers, beads. Original entry: "Woman's dancing headdress...
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Taxon:
Mustela
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Context of use:
For dancing; ceremonies. Probably one of the 16 Motoki Society headdresses (John Hellson; Manitoba Museum of Man & Nature, letter 1971). Man's headdress used in past for Grass Dances and War Dances... (continued in Object comments)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 27 centimeters
Comment:
Continued from Context of use, "... Hungry Wolf also says not associated in any way w/ Motokits, or Women's Buffalo Society, which is still functioning in his Blood Reserve in Alberta." Fide Adolf Hungry Wolf(Blood, Canada, 1975) Photo: 15-720, 15-721.
Loans:
S1973-1974 #69: Art Gallery (UC Santa Barbara ) (March 19, 1974–July 29, 1974)