Headdress

Museum number:
1-4376
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1623 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
Description:
Made of two eagle feathers and red flannel. White beading sewn on flannel in diamond shapes. End of flannel strip has 6 cm of blue and white beading. Poor condition.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1904
Materials:
Feather (material)
Taxon:
Accipitridae
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)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 1-4376, described as Made of two eagle feathers and red flannel. White beading sewn on flannel in diamond shapes. End of flannel strip has 6 cm of blue and white beading. Poor condition.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 1-4376, described as Made of two eagle feathers and red flannel. White beading sewn on flannel in diamond shapes. End of flannel strip has 6 cm of blue and white beading. Poor condition.

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