Bone ornament painted red; 2 sinew-wrapped eagle feathers loosely set into 2 round bones (also red); held with buckskin thongs.
Donor:
Machinery Credit Corporation
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Ralph K. Davies
Collection date:
Before 1971
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Context of use:
The roach found in certain ceremonial organizations of the Plains was the characteristic daily men's hairdress among the Pawnee, Osage, and Iowa." (Lowie, p. 231)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 16 centimeters
Comment:
References: Lowie, Robert H. Indians of the Plains. American Museum Science Books. Garden City, N.Y.: The Natural History Press, 1963.