Headband
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Beaded fur. Moth eaten".
label: Notes
content: Compare to turban worn by a man identified as "Great Bear" in old photo; see: British Museum, Museum number Am,A15.27, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/EA_Am-A15-27 . See also National Anthropological Archives INV 06188700 ; OPPS NEG 00817 A, https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw316e85c56-3bc5-404a-98e1-e1cdf9411771 . Published in Fleming, Paula (2003) “Native American photography at the Smithsonian : the Shindler catalogue”, no.245. Though Great Bear is listed as Delaware, this may be incorrect. It is noted by the British Museum that the man in the image is believed to be wearing clothing associated with the Ponca people rather than Delaware. British Museum additional notes on the photo: "No Delaware chief named Great Bear is known to me (Ives Goddard, 7/70). According to him, in 1867 a group of Delaware moved to the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma and thereafter became known as the Cherokee Delaware. Right before this move a tribal role was made and "Great Bear" was not on that roll. Photos of the chiefs of the Cherokee Delaware made about 1867-70 show men in business suits (see Census Rept. published 1890s). According to Goddard there is no Great Bear mentioned in any of the literature on the Delaware in 1869. However, it is possible that he was a member of the Anadarko Delaware who lived with the Caddo. No census roll of them existed at that time (JCS 12/1969)."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Unspecified
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361286-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress