Ornament
- Museum number:
- 2-4901
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020004901
- Alternate number:
- 86 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.14
- Description:
- Strip of red wool cloth; eagle feathers attached.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Great Plains, North America
- Verbatim coll. place:
- ; Great Plains
- Culture or time period:
- Comanche
- Collector:
- Hugh Lenox Scott
- Collection date:
- 1901
- Taxon:
- Accipitridae
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Ornaments (object genre)
- Function:
- 1.4 Transportation
- Context of use:
- Chest decoration for horse on "dress-up" occasions (fide David Finster, 1969). Original entry: "feathered strip for shield
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 149 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-