Hair Ornament
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 1981
name: label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Marjorie M. Post
notes: label: Notes
content: Rectangular leather band with gray horsehair extending from bottom. Beaded one side. Glass seed beads, lazy stitch, light blue background. 4 chevrons in vertical pattern. 2 squares at base of each triangle. Dark blue, clear, and pink beads. 2 inverted isosceles triangles at top of band. Leather cone tassels with red and blue dyed feathers attached to sides and bottom. Strip of leather attached to top for tie.
label: Notes
content: Man's hair drop, a hair decoration/ornament of the type sometimes called "bull's tail." See Plate 5, p. 119 in Koch Ronald P. 1977. Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians. 1st ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States / Canada, 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: 318782
label: USNM Number
content: E431671-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress
physicalDescription: label: Total Length
content: 76 cm
label: Width
content: 7 cm
label: Length - Leather Band
content: 30 cm
label: Length - Horsehair Fringe
content: 50 cm