Woven men's headdress, unfinished. With 2 pieces of string on shuttles, also feathers, and sinew.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Northwestern California
Verbatim coll. place:
California
Culture or time period:
Yurok
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1903 and November 20, 1901
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: 15-8341.
Loans:
S1959-1960 #6: Samuel A. Barrett (August 13, 1959–September 14, 1959), S1980-1981 #15: Clarence E. Smith Museum of Anthropology (CSU East Bay) (September 23, 1980–November 18, 1980), and S1982-1983 #20: University of California, Davis (November 8, 1982–December 17, 1982)