Hair Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Dec 1893
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Heinrich R. Voth
label: Donor Name
content: World's Columbian Exposition
notes: label: Notes
content: Illus. Plate XIX,, after p. 420, in Bushnell, David I. "The Various Uses of Buffalo Hair by the North American Indians." American Anthropologist, New Series, 11, no. 3 (1909): 401-25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/659627. Identified on p. 421 as a head ornament "... formed of a bunch of buffalo hair in natural color and a tuft of eagle down dyed green. The thong attached to the down is not dyed, but the larger one, binding the hair, is colored red. A small bag of "medicine" forms part of the ornament .... The extreme length is about ten inches."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Cheyenne And Arapaho Reservation, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026674
label: USNM Number
content: E165948-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hair Ornament