Head-Band
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Mar 1899
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD FOR E200090: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS TAKEN FROM AN OLD 19TH OR EARLY 20TH CENTURY EXHIBIT LABEL, AND DESCRIBES OBJECTS E200090 - E200092: "HEADDRESS [E200092]OF THE TULARE INDIANS (MOQUELUMNAN STOCK). CONSISTING OF WHOLE FEATHERS IN THE MIDDLE AND SPLIT FEATHERS AROUND THE OUTSIDE. THE WHOLE FEATHERS ARE WRAPPED AROUND THE STEM WITH CORD AND THE SPLIT FEATHERS ARE FASTENED TO A CONTINUOUS CORD. THESE ARE COILED ROUND AND ROUND TO MAKE A DENSE BUNDLE. THE WHOLE IS MOUNTED ON A LONG SKEWER OR HARPOON OF WOOD. ASSOCIATED WITH THE HEADDRESS IS A HEAD BAND OF DOWN [E200091] FORMED ON A CORD OF CEDAR BARK IN THE SAME WAY THAT CHRISTMAS WREATHS ARE MADE UP, AND ALSO A HEAD BAND OF NETWORK [E200090] MADE FROM THE NATIVE HEMP. THE NETWORK IS FIRST WRAPPED ROUND THE HEAD, THEN COVERED WITH A WREATH OF DOWN. THE STAFF OF THE FEATHER HEADDRESS IS FORCED BETWEEN THE HEAD AND THESE BANDS AND SO HELD IN PLACE. PORTERVILLE AGENCY, SOUTHERN CALIF." [This publication information actually applies to E200092 only:] ILLUS. HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 8, CALIFORNIA, FIG. 11, PG. 458."
label: Notes
content: E200089 - E200094 form a set. See p. 180 and Plate 35, after p. 180 in "Anthropological Studies in California" by William Henry Holmes in U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1900. To see a similar headdress/headband set to E200090 - 92 as worn you can consult Autry Museum of the American West photos P.548 to P.552 (available online) which show a Yokuts medicine man, Bob Bautista (Trehlawat/Trex' Lawat, ca. 1843-1923) also known as Old Bob, posed in a feather headdress, a beaded apron with waistband, and wrist ornaments, circa 1920. Link to P.552: http://collections.theautry.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=M206016;type=102 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Porterville, Tulare County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Yokuts, Tulare
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034809
label: USNM Number
content: E200090-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headband