Dakota hair roach

Titles: Dakota hair roach (Supplied title)

Description: Large Dakota roach headdress with red cotton grosgrain and purple silk ribbons. It has a short outer layer of dyed red deer hair and inner layers of undyed porcupine quills, all sewn tightly together along the base. An oblong leather roach spreader has attached ornaments of a short hollow bone and a mature eagle feather terminating in a yellow tuft.

Dates

• Approximately 1825 - Approximately 1875 (Use)

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1257.A,B

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 21 inches length (overall)

Subjects

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