Netted Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1841
name: label: Collector
content: Charles Pickering
label: Collector
content: Father Jose L. Quijas
label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: HEADDRESS MADE OF A NETWORK OF VEGETABLE FIBER CORD WITH INTERWOVEN SMALL, WHITE GLASS BEADS IN A PATTERN OF BANDS AND DIAMOND SHAPES. THERE IS ALSO A WIDE STRAP ATTACHED ON TWO SIDES. AN OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL READS, "HEADDRESS - NETWORK OF BROWN HEMP CORD INTERWOVEN WITH WHITE BEADS INTO A BAND 14 INCHES BROAD, GATHERED AT EACH END, AND JOINED BY A CHIN-STRAP 20 INCHES LONG. INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA. LENGTH, 18 INCHES...PRESENTED BY PADRE QUIJAS [Father Jose Lorenzo Quijas?] TO CHARLES PICKERING, NATURALIST." EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86. EXHIBITED SITES "MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS," 1987-89.
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue lists this object under the heading of "Native manufactures from St Francisco [San Franciso Mission] California. Presented by Padre Quijas" (presumably Father Jose Lorenzo Quijas).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2561-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Folded
content: 40 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm