Headdress, Ceremonial
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
label: Collection Date
content: 1901 to 1911
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Cornelius W. Crouse
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Painted. The headdress consists of a black head covering painted with white stripes. To this is attached a horizontal stick with three upright sticks. These are painted in various colors. this is a portion of the headdress worn by the so-called Apache devil dancers [sic]. Collected by Col. C. W. Crouse, Apache agent."
label: Notes
content: Arden Comanche, Tribal Leader of the Mescalero Apache, states that the description "devil dance" should be referred to as Giha or Mountain Spirit dance.
label: Notes
content: Cornelius Washington Crouse (1853 - 1933) was agent/superintendent at the Fort Apache Agency/Reservation for 12 years beginning in 1901.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Apache Indian Reservation (not certain), Navajo County (not certain) / Gila County (not certain) / Apache County (not certain), Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Apache, White Mountain (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E360973-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mask