Maiden's Head Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. John B. White
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1974."
label: Notes
content: Handspun and dyed wool textile. There are warp ends (a multiple element structure), but it's also looped (usually associated with single-element structures), and it's oblique (no wefts). It's not woven, knit, sprang, or knotted in any normal way.
label: Notes
content: "Head ornament worn by young maidens particularly young virgins. The hair is drawn together behind the head and attached to the headdress.” and “Young girls who are unmarried often have No. 9 [21,504] affixed to the back hair and No. 49 [21,555-21,556] with mirror around the neck.” per White's original catalog in the NAA.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Aug 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004869
label: USNM Number
content: E21504-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress