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)