Cap
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Aug 2012
label: Collection Date
content: 1906 or 1907
name: label: Collector
content: Edward S. Curtis
label: Donor Name
content: James "Jim" H. Graybill
notes: label: Notes
content: Cap. Seamed buckskin cap, conical shape. Light tan color with a yellow stripe that is painted or dyed down the center seam. There are eight sinew wrapped feathers on the top of the cap. The barbs of the feathers are missing, leaving the hard keratin center. Glass beads line the bottom in a diagonal, repeating black, white, black, white pattern. In the center of the cap, a cross on top of crescent moon (?) is depicted. There is a chin strap connected to the cap made of two thin strips of skin twisted together.
label: Notes
content: There is a tag attached to the object that reads "Apache See Vol 1 NAS page 42. 194, 10" . This possibly refers to p. 42 inThe North American Indian (1907-1930) v.01, The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho ([Seattle] : E.S. Curtis ; [Cambridge, Mass. : The University Press], 1907? The second paragraph on p. 42 discusses the cross-and-crescent motif that is on this hat, with origin discussion continuing in text to p. 44. See also: Ferg, Alan. Cross-and-Crescent Motifs Among the Western Apache. Part 1: Daagodighá. American Indian Art Magazine 23(2):70-83. Spring 1998. Ferg, Alan. Cross-and-Crescent Motifs Among the Western Apache. Part 2: Antecedents and Descendants. American Indian Art Magazine 23(3):58-67. Summer 1998
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Southwest, United States (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2058745
label: USNM Number
content: E432867-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 25 cm
label: Width
content: 22 cm