Feathered Hat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975."
label: Notes
content: Listed as Cap of deer scalp and horns with feather, with cape of beaver skin, fur on, ornamented with feathers and illustrated (Figure 55d) in Fowler and Matley (1979) with the following description: "...Cap: deer scalp of 'forked horn' or 'four point' (Eastern count) spread probably about 40cm; antler curves foward indicating Odocoileus virginianus....Cap feathers consist of two bunchings of split quill feathers, Buteo swainsoni....Cape is....made of beaver skin (Castor canadensis).....Lower half of cape is a second, separate beaver skin with fur on (soft, ventral fur)...Top half of cape is decorated with part of unidentified bird skin....cap-cape seam area....laced with six red-shafted flicker (Colaptes cafer) wing feathers, 11cm long, and two outer white tail feathers of Clarks nutcracker (Nicifraga columbiana), 11cm long. Across cape further down is a tail feather of red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), 24cm long...another bunching of split quill tail feathers of Swainsons hawk (Buteo swainsoni)... nine tail feathers still attached to small piece of bird skin are tied on with buckskin.....Feathers are similar to Cooper's hawk (Accipiter cyaneus), 23cm long but may be Marsh hawk (Circus cyaneus).... Six fail feathers, 17cm long, and at least eight secondary and down feathers about 8cm long of ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus umbelloides)...Three tail feathers of Circus cyaneus, 23cm long....At bottom tip of cape a tied buckskin thong has quill bent over a wrapped golden eagle tail feather (Aquila chrysaetos), 27cm long."
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 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, Northern, Goose Creek
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00070
label: USNM Number
content: E19833-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress