Man's Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1877
label: Collection Date
content: 1877
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 7 CENTER, PG. 297." Handbook caption identifies as Northern Shoshone headdress. "A fur turban, most likely horsehide, supports 2 antelope horns and a cluster of split eagle and magpie feathers and grouse tail feathers tipped with strips of ermine. Split turkey vulture feathers decorate the top of the trailer. Below them are red-tailed hawk tail feathers and 2 sets of golden eagle tail feathers tipped with downy underplumage." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD E19868: "CEREMONIAL HEADDRESS OF THE PAI UTE INDIANS (SHOSHONEAN STOCK). MADE OF DEERSKIN AND OTTER SKIN, DECORATED WITH HAWK AND EAGLE FEATHERS, WHOLE, SHREDDED, OR SPLIT. THE SKULL CAP IS ALSO DECORATED WITH HORNS FROM THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP AND ANTELOPE. UTAH. 19,868; 27,817. COLLECTED BY MAJOR J. W. POWELL."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Aug 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Shoshone
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 005914
label: USNM Number
content: E27817-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress