Feathered. Eagle feathers wrapped with blue and red yarn, set with leather on felt cap; tipped with white fur and wispy blonde scalplocks; buckskin fringe on sides; felt browband with multi-colored glass "seed" beads.
Donor:
Machinery Credit Corporation
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Ralph K. Davies
Collection date:
Before 1971
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Headdresses
Function:
3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 22.5 centimeters and height 38 centimeters
Loans:
S1980-1981 #24: Palo Alto Cultural Center (October 28, 1980–January 23, 1981)