Headdress
- Museum number:
- 1-1172
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010001172
- Alternate number:
- 3172 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.19
- Description:
- Head ring: Red woodpeckers, mallard, deer belly (sewn in); wild straw fill, iris twine, cloth wrapping
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Klamath River below Weitchpec, Humboldt County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Klamath River area; Klamath R. below Weitchpec
- Culture or time period:
- Yurok
- Collector:
- Philip Mills Jones
- Collection date:
- August 4, 1901
- Taxon:
- Odocoileus
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Headdresses
- Function:
- 5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
- Accession date:
- December 7, 1901
- Context of use:
- Used in the Brush Dance, and traditionally made by males (fide Bradley Marshall).
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Loans:
- S1984-1985 #46: Crocker Art Museum (June 7, 1985–November 18, 1985) and S1985-1986 #16: Palm Springs Desert Museum (November 18, 1985–March 18, 1986)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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