Feather Bonnet Straight-Up Type
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ORIGINALLY OF 34 UPRIGHT FEATHERS (DYED ORANGE); ATTACHED TO SKIN CAP. CAP HAS SOME PAINTED DECORATION IN SMALL BLACK AND RED GEOMETRIC FIGURES NEAR BOTTOM; PIECE OF SKIN SEWN ON AS HEADBAND BEARS QUILLED DEC. IN RED, YELLOW, GREEN AND BLACK QUILLWORK; CUT FRINGE WRAPPED WITH RED AND GREEN QUILLS. NO TRAILER. QUILLED MEDALION AT FRONT CENTER 1" DIAMETER." FOR COMPARISON, SEE HIDATSA FEATHER HEADDRESS CIRCA 1830, FIG. 69, P. 88 IN NATIVE AMERICAN ART, THE COLLECTIONS OF THE ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM BERLIN, 1999. ILLUS. FIG. 20, P. 51 IN WAPA'HA BY COLIN TAYLOR, VERLAG FUR AMERIKANISTIK, GERMANY, 1998. IDENTIFIED BY TAYLOR AS POSSIBLY HAVING BELONGED TO CROW WARRIOR, HE-WHO-JUMPS-OVER-EVERYONE, WHO WAS PAINTED BY CATLIN IN 1832 WEARING A HEADDRESS WHERE THE WHITE OF THE EAGLE FEATHERS HAD BEEN DYED RED. SEE P. 29 FOR DISCUSSION OF THIS THEORY AND FIG. 19, P. 50 FOR ILLUSTRATION OF CATLIN PAINTING.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains (not certain), United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains Indian (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E386537-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress