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date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Jul 1956
name: label: Collector
content: Charles d. Elkus
label: Collector
content: Rev. John M. Cooper
label: Donor Name
content: Catholic University Of America
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "A buckskin crown, on back of which are hung 6 white ermine tails, around lower border of whiich is a 1 3/8" W. beaded band of white background with vertical stepped triangles in red, yellow and blue, at each end a rosette with whirlwind design. Around entire crown are mounted black tipped eagle feathers bound into a folded strip of skin and wrapped with red strouding. Through the loop end runs the cord holding it to the crown. This was part of what collectors called a "Blackfoot" costume."
label: Notes
content: This object may have been collected by Charles de Young Elkus, as was E395589. That object also has a similar notation about being part of a collection that the collector called "Blackfoot".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 211312
label: USNM Number
content: E395588-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress