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Object Number 05-7-10/64517
Display Title Feather band
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tah-mich-ha-lak
Inventory Description Headband, black and white feathers,red-orange quills strung with fiber cord
Classification
  • Headband
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Miwok
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California / Calaveras County
Additional Geographic Terms West Point, near
Dimensions Overall: 62.2 x 15 x 0.2 cm (24 1/2 x 5 7/8 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 64517
Provenance
Owner Capt. Eph Cummings (? - 1905)
Collector E. L. McLeod (1905 - 1905)
Dealer Grace A. Nicholson (1904 - 1905)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1905)

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