Feather Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: Listed as headdress and illustrated (Figure 37a) in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following description of feathering: "...two bunchings of red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) down feathers tied together and to band with buckskin ... quill of a single depending golden eagle feather (Aquila chrysaetos)...Feathers are: 8 red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) tail feathers, 12-14 cm; 1 Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cooperii) tail feather, 17 cm; 6 Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni), 30-36 cm; 10 tail feathers (Buteo swainsoni), 22-30 cm; 2 red-tailed hawk tail feathers (Buteo jamaicensis), 25 cm." (p. 53) May also be among headdresses shown in (Figure 23).
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jul 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute, Southern, Kaibab
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E14581-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress