Man's Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
label: Collection Date
content: 1865 to 1875
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "NET WITH JAY FEATHERS. MAN'S HEADDRESS OF THE HOOPA INDIANS (ATHAPASCAN STOCK). MADE ON A NET WARP OF NATIVE TWINE, THE THREADS TERMINATING IN BUNCHES OF JAY FEATHERS. THE TWINES CROSS ONE ANOTHER AT REGULAR INTERVALS IN SETS OF SEVEN, FORMING DIAMOND PATTERNS. THE INTERSECTION OF EACH PAIR OF THREADS MAKE A REGULAR NETTING OR MESH KNOT. TRINITY RIVER, CALIFORNIA. 21,333. COLLECTED BY STEPHEN POWERS. 21333 LOANED TO RENWICK 5/6/82. RETURNED 6/1983. OPENWEAVE NET HEADDRESS, CA: 1865-75. HUPA INDIANS, NORTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA. NATIVE TWINE, JAY FEATHERS, COTTON CLOTH; KNOTTED. 21 1/2 X 12 X 3/4 (54.5 X 30.5 X 1.9) NMNH 21333, COLLECTED BY STEPHEN POWERS. ILLUS.: P.167, PL. 215B, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hoopa Valley / Trinity River, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hupa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E21333-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 54.5 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 30.5 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 1.9 cm