Headdress With Trailer
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 May 1884
name: label: Donor Name
content: Elisha F. Riggs
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Base is a felt skullcap, with beaded (white) visor, with white weasel (ermine) skins pendant from the sides. Full crown of black-tipped white eagle feathers tipped with horsetail streamers. Full length trailer of the same feathers on red velvet or strouding. Worn by warriors. This headdress was the one used on a model that was used on the 1899 Five dollar bill." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 9, case 22. Exhibit label (presumably written by John C. Ewers?) identified object as: "Bonnet of eagle feathers decorated with beaded visor, pendant strips of white weasel skin and red flannel trailer. There are 77 eagle feathers in the cap and trailer. Sioux. Period 1880."
label: Notes
content: Accession card in accession file has a notation: "Catalogued & poisoned & placed on exhibition by A. H. [Howard] Clark June 7th 1884."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 014424
label: USNM Number
content: E73150-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress