Headdress

Museum number:
1-4263
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010004263
Alternate number:
1510 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
Description:
Feather; eight cinyere feathers bound with natural colored twine and red strips of fabric (wool): this is bound to a wooden stick with a pointed end. Cotton string.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
April 1904
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
2.3 Special Ornaments, Garb, and Finery Worn to Battle by Warrior (excluding status insignia)
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 22.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 1-4263, described as Feather; eight cinyere feathers bound with natural colored twine and red strips of fabric (wool): this is bound to a wooden stick with a pointed end. Cotton string.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 1-4263, described as Feather; eight cinyere feathers bound with natural colored twine and red strips of fabric (wool): this is bound to a wooden stick with a pointed end. Cotton string.

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