Feather headdress

Titles: Feather headdress (Supplied title)

Description: Eagle feather headdress made of brown and white eagle feathers tied to a leather skullcap with a beadwork band across the forehead. Dyed red feathers or strands of dyed red hair, probably deer, glued to the feather tips along with bands of animal skin with some fur intact. The base of the feathers are encased in a leather strip which is covered with red wool with short red and green feathers sewn to it. Band across the forehead is a leather strip decorated with spot-stitch, geometric beadwork using multi-colored glass seed beads on white bead background and white beaded edging around the sides and the bottom. Headress was part of the collection of John R. Howard, an American Indian agent at White Earth Reservation, Minnesota, in the early 1900's. Possibly Dakota in origin.

Dates

• Approximately 1800 - Approximately 1899 (Creation)

Creation

• owned/used by: Howard, John Reed

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 10000.718

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, The Harry and Jeannette Ayer Collection.

Notes

• Jeannette O. and Harry D. Ayer Ojibwe Collection.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 17 inches height
• 6 3/4 inches diameter

Subjects

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