Feather Ornaments
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: U.S. Department Of War
notes: label: Notes
content: One feather ornament, plus a bundle of broken pieces. The feather mounted in a bone socket is attached to a fragment of a roach made of red-dyed deer hair (?). Other feathers have ornamented shafts and may be parts of other objects in the collection. Entered in the orginal ledger catalog as from the War Department with the location given as Upper Missouri Valley. Tag attached to one bundle - "Feather ornaments - Upper Missouri Valley - War Dept (Collector) En. Jan 5, 1857." The tag is of the type used in the mid-20th century. An early Smithsonian tag on another piece repeats ledger information of Upper Missouri River Valley - War Dept.
label: Notes
content: Feather mounted in bone socket attached to roach fragment was identified by Dr. JoAllyn Archambault, Standing Rock Sioux, NMNH Department of Anthropology, as a roach spinner.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Upper Missouri River, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 67A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2477-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress