Feather Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT FOR HALL 9 TAKEDOWN (C. VALENTOUR, 3/1998): "BONNET STRUCTURE MADE OF THICK BUCKSKIN, TO WHICH IS ATTACHED LONG EAGLE FEATHERS, SHAFTS WRAPPED W/ SKIN, & THEN RED TRADE CLOTH, SEWN W/ LEATHER THONGS. EACH FEATHER IS TIPPED W/ A TUFT OF WHITE HORSEHAIR. FRONT OF BONNET FITTED W/ PIECE OF LEATHER, DECORATED W/ PINK, RED, GREEN, BLUE, & WHITE GLASS BEADS. ADDITIONAL ROW ABOVE OF GREEN GLASS TUBE BEADS. SIDES OF BONNET DECORATED W/ SILK RIBBONS, WOOL YARN, & FEATHER. 2 LEATHER THONGS FOR ATTACHMENT." WAS GIVEN T#16523, NO LONGER VALID. D. NGUYEN, DEC 21, 1998.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E357460-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - W/o Horsehair
content: 67 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 42 cm