Feather Dress And Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: "KUKSHU," LONG CLOSED CLOAK OR DRESS COMPOSED OF A VEGETABLE FIBER NETTING WITH BLACK RAVEN AND BUZZARD FEATHERS TIED ON. THE FEATHERS ARE BENT IN HALF AT THE QUILL AND TIED TO THE NET WITH HEMP BARK STRIPS. THE HEADDRESS IS FORMED BY AN OUTWARD HOOP OF BENT WILLOW SHOOT, WITH COILED STRINGS OF FEATHERS WHICH ARE ATTACHED IN THE SAME MANNER AS THE CLOAK. PUBLICATION: AMERICAN INDIAN ART MAGAZINE, VOL. 8, NO. 3 (1983) "THE CALIFORNIA COLLECTION OF I.G. VOZNESENSKI," BY CRAIG D. BATES, P. 36-41. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. The catalogue card had attributed this object as Wintun?, but Jane Walsh has listed it as Nisenan, after consulation with Dr. Sally McLendon.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BLACK RAVEN AND BUZZARD FEATHERS: FOR THE HEADDRESS ATTACHED TO A WOODEN STICK RING; FOR THE CAPE ATTACHED TO THE KNOTTED JUNCTIONS OF A CORD NET. WORN OVER THE HEAD AND SHOULDERS FOR CEREMONIAL DANCES."
label: Notes
content: The Peale catalogue entry for this artifact, under # 329, identifies it as "Dress made of feathers, and worn on certain occasions of ceremony by the natives of California."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nisenan (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E3326-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cape / Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Cape
content: 124 cm
label: Diameter - Headdress (Ring)
content: 9 cm
label: Unknown - Feathers
content: 24 cm