Man's headdress
name: label: Culture/People
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
label: Previous owner
content: Bessie B. Newcomb, Non-Indian
label: Seller
content: Bessie B. Newcomb, Non-Indian
label: Presenter/funding source
content: Viking Fund, Incorporated (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.), 1941-
notes: label: Collection History
content: Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Bessie B. Newcomb (probably Bessie Bulen Newcomb [1883-1979], a city clerk in Long Beach, California, who grew up in Montana); purchased by MAI from Bessie B. Newcomb in 1948 using funds donated by the Viking Fund, Inc. (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.).
label: Contact Us
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place: label: Place
content: Montana or Alberta; USA, Canada (inferred)
setName: label: See related items
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
label: See related items
content: Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 21/962
label: Barcode
content: 210962.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Man's headdress
label: Media/Materials
content: Buffalo hide/skin, buffalo horn
label: Techniques
content: Stitched
label: Dimensions
content: 18 x 65 x 41 cm