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Headdress

1980.37.1

Titles: Headdress (Supplied title)

Description: A headdress, possibly Teton Lakota, consisting of approximately two dozen eagle feathers attached to a leather skull cap, circa 1890. The cap's brow band is decorated with a lazy-stitched beadwork panel. The panel's design uses white, green, red, yellow, blue and black glass seed beads, green and blue seed bead bottom edging, and a row of larger, round green glass beads along the top edge. A round leather patch has been sewn to the cap above each ear and is decorated with amber seed beads and red and/or yellow feathers. The eagle feather quills are wrapped in rawhide and red wool cloth. Smaller, red and yellow-dyed downy feathers have been glued to the tips of some of the eagle feathers, which are attached to leather loops and sewn to the cap with tan thread. Small brown and white feathers are sewn onto the cap's peak. To the cap's center is sewn one long quill decorated with fluffy green, orange and yellow feathers, both at its tip and in two additional central areas. Tan thread is used to make attachments throughout; sinew has been wrapped around the quills of some of the smaller feathers. A few of the eagle feathers are marked in red.

Dates

  • Approximately 1890 (Creation)

Identifiers

  • Accession Number: 1980.37.1

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

  • Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

  • 23 inches length
  • 15 inches height
  • 9 1/2 inches diameter (cap)

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1980.37.1