Headdress

Museum number:
1-13825
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.325
Description:
Of hawk feathers. Old, fan shaped. Approximately 40 feathers clustered with red fabric strip bound with string of red and natural colors.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
February 1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
2.3 Special Ornaments, Garb, and Finery Worn to Battle by Warrior (excluding status insignia)
Accession date:
1908
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 17.5 centimeters and width 30 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "Thinyere
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 1-13825, described as Of hawk feathers. Old, fan shaped. Approximately 40 feathers clustered with red fabric strip bound with string of red and natural colors.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 1-13825, described as Of hawk feathers. Old, fan shaped. Approximately 40 feathers clustered with red fabric strip bound with string of red and natural colors.

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