Feather Headdress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: HEADDRESS IS A MIX OF BALD EAGLE AND GOLDEN EAGLE TAIL FEATHERS - VERY RARE. ALL WHITE FEATHERS ARE FROM MATURE BALD EAGLE'S TAIL.
label: Notes
content: George Levi and Max Bear of the Cheyenne delegation from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma made these comments during the Recovering Voices Community Research Visit November 3-6, 2015. Concerning construction- the quills are wrapped with sinew and rawhide, then they put the cloth on. The feathers are interspersed immature with mature bald and golden eagles. There is horse hair, ermines, and braided sweet grass.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E357464-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress