Cap Ornamented With Abalone Shell (Headnet)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Stephen Powers
label: Donor Name
content: Stephen Powers
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS. HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 8, CALIFORNIA, FIG. 3, PG. 227. "DANCE CAP OF (HEMP) FIBER NETTING WITH ABALONE PENDANTS AND WHITE GLASS BEADS; CHIN STRAP IS RED FLANNEL." AN OLD TAG FOUND ASSOCIATED WITH THIS OBJECT READS: "APPRAISEMENT WARRANT, APRIL 18, 1883, NOT FOR SALE, 7 PIECES". (S. CRAWFORD, 5/17/89). MAY BE WINTU OR KONKOW? PER BRIAN BIBBY 3-6-1995." FROM 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL WITH CARD: "HEAD-DRESS (PANNIH).---NET-WORK OF BROWN CORD INTERWOVEN INTO A BAND 16 INCHES BROAD, ORNAMENTED ON CROWN WITH BEADS AND PIECES OF ABALONE SHELL, AND GATHERED AT ENDS, WHICH ARE JOINED BY A CHIN-STRAP OF RED FLANNEL 15 INCHES LONG. WORN IN DANCING BY ACHOMAWE INDIANS OF PIT RIVER. LENGTH, 14 INCHES. CALIFORNIA, 1875. 21,378. COLLECTED BY STEPHEN POWERS."
label: Notes
content: Cited in Scherer, Alice, "Along a Continuum: Spirally-woven Beadwork of the Tlingit, Wasco, and Pit River Peoples" (2018). Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. 1107. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/1107
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Pit River, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Achumawi (Achomawi, Ajumawi) (?)
label: Culture
content: Wintu (?)
label: Culture
content: Konkow (Concow) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 004856
label: USNM Number
content: E21378-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 36 cm