Fur Headdress
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. James M. Bell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CHIEF RAIN IN THE FACE. HAS BEADS AND BELLS."
label: Notes
content: This otter fur turban is not consistent with the associated information, which reports that it was obtained from Rain in the Face (Lakota) at Ft. Keogh. This appears to have been among the many errors in the list provided by the donor. The tribe of origin is unknown but the headdress is characteristic of the Southern Plains. An affiliation with the Kiowa or Comanche, from whom Bell collected other items, is most likely. It has several features that connect it with the Peyote religion of those tribes, including the beaded rosettes, mescal beans, and flicker feathers, which appear on peyote items collected by James Mooney around the same time that Bell was posted at Ft. Sill.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Apr 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa (?)
label: Culture
content: Comanche (Numunuu) (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028804
label: USNM Number
content: EL62-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Headdress