Woven from wool; in 6 narrow bands sewn together. Self-fringed, multicolored jagged designs.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Central Plains
Culture or time period:
Umoⁿhoⁿ
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Scarves (costume accessories)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
Head scarf. Worn by men on ceremonial and dress-up occasions, also worn by other Siouan tribes.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 80 centimeters
Comment:
Such scarves formerly woven from hair of buffalo calf. Photo: probably 13/96. Exhibited: UCLMA, "Plains Indians", 1971. References: P. 347, "The Omaha Tribe", BAE 27, Fletcher & LaFlesche. Head scarf. Worn by men on ceremonial and dress-up occasions, also worn by other Siouan tribes.
Loans:
S1973-1974 #65: Oakland Museum of California (March 8, 1974–April 24, 1974)