Dancing Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FUR, BEADS AND FEATHERS. ILLUS. HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 8, CALIFORNIA, FIG. 8, PG. 293. "...WOMEN'S DANCE HEADDRESS...TRADITIONAL STYLE, OF FUR ORNAMENTED WITH GLASS BEADS ON WIRE FOUNDATIONS, RED CLOTH ROSETTES, YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER QUILLS AND TRIMMED FEATHERS, AND HALIOTIS SHELL BEADS, WITH CLOTH STRIPS TIED AT BACK OF HEAD." FROM CARD: "HEAD-DRESS.---A WREATH OF OTTER FUR, ORNAMENTED WITH BEADS, FEATHER, AND BITS OF RED CLOTH. A CALICO STRING IS USED FOR FASTENING IT ABOUT THE HEAD. WORN IN DANCES. DIAMETER, 8 1/2 INCHES. UKA INDIANS (YUKIAN STOCK), ROUND VALLEY RESERVATION, CALIFORNIA. 21,410. COLLECTED BY STEPHEN POWERS."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Ukiah, Mendocino County / Round Valley Reservation, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pomo, Yokaya
label: Culture
content: Yuki
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E21410-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 21.6 cm