Headdress
- Museum number:
- 1-211595
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010211595
- Accession number:
- Acc.1307
- Description:
- Shredded tule foundation. Feathered skewers. "Big Head.
- Donor:
- Samuel A. Barrett and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- North Central California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California
- Culture or time period:
- Pomo
- Collector:
- Samuel A. Barrett
- Collection date:
- February 1960
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Headdresses and Skewers
- Accession date:
- 1960
- Context of use:
- Worn in the Maru ("Dreamer") ceremony. This ceremony is an outgrowth of the Ghost Dance religion which originated in Mason Valley, NV and spread over much of the Pacific Coast in 1870-72.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Loans:
- S1967-1968 #97b: Junior Center of Art and Science (February 27, 1968–May 1, 1968)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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