Feathered. Eagle feathers wrapped with white cotton and red yarn, set in leather on felt cap; tipped with white fur; 5 eagle feathers on crown of cap; tan corduroy browband with 5 abalone shell buttons; brown buckskin fringe; single brown buckskin trail.
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:
height 35 centimeters, length 26.5 centimeters, and length 43 centimeters