Society Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Sep 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Emile Granier
label: Donor Name
content: Emile Granier
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "FIVE EAGLE FEATHERS FASTENED TO A PIECE OF RAWHIDE. ON THE FRONT ARE STRIPS OF QUILL WRAPPED RAWHIDE. ILLUS.: P.45, PL. 254B, CELEBRATIONS CATALOGUE, SMITHSONIAN PRESS, 1982. INVENTORIED 1978." FROM CARD: "200,788. THE PLAINS INDIANS BELIEVED THAT POWER AND KNOWLEDGE CAME FROM THE ALIGNMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL WITH THE ORDER AND BEAUTY OF THE COSMOS. THIS SET OF REGALIA-COMPLETE EXCEPT FOR A LANCE-FOR THE FOURTH AGE GROUP (TWENTY TO THIRTY YEARS) OF AN ARAPAHO SOCIETY EMPHASIZES THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ITS POSSESSOR AND NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL FORCES. THE CROSSES SYMBOLIZE THE MORNING STAR, FATHER OF MANKIND, WHO MAKES LIFE GOOD; THE RED STROUD-CLOTH BORDER REPRESENTS THE COLOR OF THE EVENING STAR; THE FOUR VERTICAL GREEN LINES STAND FOR COMPLETENESS, THE FOUR DAYS OF THE LODGE'S MEETING, AND THE STRAIGHT PATHS OF THE MORAL LIFE; AND THE NOTCHES ON THE LOWER EDGE REPRESENT CLOUDS. HERE, AS IN OTHER REGALIA, THE FEATHERS INDICATE THE EXPANSION OF HUMAN ACTION OUTSIDE ITS NORMAL EARTHLY RANGE AND THE GIDDY SPEED OF SUPERNATURAL POWER. CONT. SEE CARD"
label: Notes
content: This has been identified as a headdress of the men's society, the Spear Lodge, by reference to A. Kroeber, The Arapaho, AMNH Bulletin, 1904.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Jan 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arapaho (Inunaina, Hinono'ei)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034005
label: USNM Number
content: E200788-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress