Headdress
- Museum number:
- 1-1436
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001436
- Alternate number:
- 20 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.17 and Acc.86
- Description:
- Made of the feathers from neck of condor.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Northwestern California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Collection date:
- 1901
- Materials:
- Feather (material)
- Taxon:
- Gymnogyps californianus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Headdresses
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Accession date:
- 1903 and November 20, 1901
- Context of use:
- Worn hanging over the eyes by woman doctor in the sweathouse.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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