Hair Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Beaded buffalo tail. Three rectangular beaded patterns on a light blue background. Red beaded horse track pairs alternate between each rectangle. Five thongs wrapped in purple quill border the beaded portion."
label: Notes
content: This looks like a man's hair drop, a hair decoration/ornament of the type sometimes called "bull's tail." See Plate 5, p. 119 in Koch Ronald P. 1977. Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians. 1st ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET1193-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress