War Headdress
name: label: Donor Name
content: Accession Number Unknown
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BELONGED TO TALL BULL."
label: Notes
content: Catalogue card indicates artifact came from "Land Office, Interior Dept." Anthropology catalogue ledger book identifies donor as Land Office and collector as Gen. T. Duncan (presumably Bvt. Brig. Gen. Thomas Duncan, 1819-1887.) Object was catalogued into Anthropology collections in 1872. Page 52 of Smithsonian Annual Report for the year 1872 notes that in that year, under the authorization of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of the General Land Office transferred to the Smithsonian a large collection of minerals which had been formed by Mr. Joseph S. Wilson, the previous Commissioner. Headdress is illustrated Cat./Fig. 206, p. 220 in Feigenbaum, Gail, and Victoria Cooke. 2003. Jefferson's America & Napoleon's France an exhibition for the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art. It is identified there as animal skin, glass beads, buffalo hair, horsehair, buffalo horns, 78 x 29 5/8 x 28 1/2 inches (198 x 75 x 11.5 cm.) "The cap is made of buffalo hide with hair still attached. There is an unusual visor and beaded brown band to shield the wearer's eyes, and remnants of the ermine skins that hung from each side remain. The buffalo horns that top the headdress have been carved out while the trailor is decorated with rows of horns. The weight of this headdress was supported by leg skins that tied to his waist."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Apr 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Wyoming Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000000
label: USNM Number
content: E11546-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 198 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 75 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 11.5 cm