Headdress

45-15-529

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-529
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Felt | Flannel | Horn (animal part) | Hawk Feathers | Glass | Horsehair | Quill
Technique Dyed | Beaded
Description

Felt cap covered with red flannel, red flannel trailer, 56 hawk feathers. Dyed green, tipped with red down feathers, yellow horsehair, and a pair of cut cow horns on cap. Ends quill wrapped, tipped with yellow horsehair, each with a bunch short green hawk feathers. Little yellow feathers, horns connected by string of beads, red-feathered wand on crown. Narrow brow-band beaded in blocks, red, yellow, green, filled up pattern.

Length 170 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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