Head-Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: C. 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: No catalog card found in card file
label: Notes
content: Long black bristles surrounded by shorter red ones, metal sequin edging, bone spreader with fragmentary blue ribbon streamers. Feather set in socket. 13" (33 cm). Records: The black bristles are of turkey beard, the red is dyed elk hair. An eagle feather is fastened into a bone socket in front. These headdresses are bought by the Kiowas from the Caddos and other tribes. Catlin figures this form of headdress upon the the Sac, Fox, Pawnees, and Osages. (C, L). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 6 Oct 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152860-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress