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Object Number
985-27-10/60430
Display Title
Eagle feather headdress. Cap made from hide and gray felt. Feathers dyed red. Br
Descriptions
Object Description
Eagle feather headdress. Cap made from hide and gray felt. Feathers dyed red. Browband beaded in blue and white in 2 rows of lazystitch beadwork. Dyed purple fluffy feathers at bottom of eagle feathers. 42x18 cm.
Inventory Description
Headdress, leather cap, beaded band, eagle feathers, red,purple, green feathers
Classification
- Headdress
Department
Ethnographic
Date
19th century
Culture
- Sioux?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Dimensions
Overall: 38 x 28 x 30 cm (14 15/16 x 11 x 11 13/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
985-27-10/60430, 24241
Provenance
Collector
William H. Claflin, Jr.
(1907 - 1985)
Collector
William Radcliff Morris
(1878-1893 - 1930)
Donor
Estate of William H. Claflin, Jr.
(1985)
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