Bustle spikes made of eagle wing tip feathers, hawk feathers, hawk bells (brass) and ribbons. (fide David Finster)
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Southwestern Native American
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1945
Taxon:
Accipitridae
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
ume piece from Grass Dance. Such spikes project from the base of the bustle (Crow Belt) which is worn at the small of the back; part of the costume (insignia) of the Grass Dance Society (called Heduska in some tribes), fide David Finster.