Feather Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed as Man's headdress in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following description: "Feathering: 4 red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis calurus) 24 cm average length. Fourteen feathers of red-shafted flicker (Colaptes cafer collaris), 12 cm long, alternating and placed between feathers of other species. Ten Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) tail feathers, 25 cm long. Two wing feathers, Buteo jamaicensis, 30 cm long. At point where buckskin headband is sewn together, cluster of seven tail feathers of Buteo jamaicensis and buckskin fringe is attached." (pg. 53) May be among headdresses shown in (Figure 23).
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Feb 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute, Southern, Kaibab
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E14579-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress