Halo

Museum number:

1-17328

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Accession number:

Acc.100MM

Description:

Yellow porcupine quill hair band.

Donor:

F. E. Gist and University Appropriation

Collection place:

Somes Bar, Salmon River, Siskiyou County

Verbatim coll. place:

California; Siskiyou; Somes Bar

Culture or time period:

Karuk

Collector:

F. E. Gist

Collection date:

August 27, 1912

Taxon:

Erethizon dorsatum

Object type:

ethnography

Accession date:

August 27, 1912

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Per Ron Johnson and Colleen Kelly Marks in "Quillwork in Native American Baskets from Northwest California" pg. 96-97 these hairbands, also known as halos, were worn by girls on the last day of the Jump Dance.

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