Headdress

Museum number:
2-59195
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3239
Description:
Feathered; eagle feathers wrapped with red wool strouding and tipped with bluish feathers, set in rawhide on felt cap; rawhide thongs with white ostrich feathers; brown metal, red and white glass "seed" beads on browband; single trail of feathers on cloth --one side brown burlap-like, other orange, green, blue painted cotton; strips of white feathers on brown side.
Donor:
Machinery Credit Corporation
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Dakota
Collector:
Ralph K. Davies
Collection date:
Before 1971
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Context of use:
Feathered headdress: painted cloth a Dakota Ghost Dance design, probably "recycled" (fide Jo Allyn Archambault, 1976).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
1.52 centimeters, length 15 centimeters, and height 39 centimeters
Loans:
S1982-1983 #23: University of California, Berkeley (January 14, 1983–March 24, 1983)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-59195, described as Feathered; eagle feathers wrapped with red wool strouding and tipped with bluish feathers, set in rawhide on felt cap; rawhide thongs with white ostrich feathers; brown metal, red and white glass "seed" beads on browband; single trail of feathers on cloth --one side brown burlap-like, other orange, green, blue painted cotton; strips of white feathers on brown side.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 2-59195, described as Feathered; eagle feathers wrapped with red wool strouding and tipped with bluish feathers, set in rawhide on felt cap; rawhide thongs with white ostrich feathers; brown metal, red and white glass "seed" beads on browband; single trail of feathers on cloth --one side brown burlap-like, other orange, green, blue painted cotton; strips of white feathers on brown side.

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