Headdress

Museum number:
1-13824
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010013824
Accession number:
Acc.325
Description:
Of hawk feathers, wrapped at bases with red flannel and attached to a stick.
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
Context of use:
Model.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 37.2 centimeters and length 21 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "Thinyere
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 1-13824, described as Of hawk feathers, wrapped at bases with red flannel and attached to a stick.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headdress, accession number 1-13824, described as Of hawk feathers, wrapped at bases with red flannel and attached to a stick.

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