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War Bonnet Headdress
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.0083
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; hair; feather; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0083
- Description
- A Indigenous headdress in traditional style, crown of two pieces of buckskin sewn together. White owl feathers erect and finished with black fur tufts and white horsehair. Ermine tails hanging by the ear medallions, fluffy downy feathers over the forehead bead strip, and the bead strip of orange wi…
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- skin; hair; feather; glass
- Dimensions
- 28.0 x 41.0 cm
- Description
- A Indigenous headdress in traditional style, crown of two pieces of buckskin sewn together. White owl feathers erect and finished with black fur tufts and white horsehair. Ermine tails hanging by the ear medallions, fluffy downy feathers over the forehead bead strip, and the bead strip of orange with stepped triangles of red, blue, yellow and black applied in lazy stitch. Two medallions of similar triangles and orange pie wedges bordered in white. Two feathers hanging from the crown.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0083
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War Bonnet Headdress
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.3019
- Date
- c. 1900
- Material
- feathers; fibre; glass; hair
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3019
- Description
- Old headdress. Beaded browband with two strands of cylindrical aqua beads and black beads, with large green and black hanging beaded loops. White feathers and dark feathers trimmed with red down tips and bases. Horse hair, dyed purple, attached to feather tips. Many ermine tails, dyed horseha…
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- c. 1900
- Material
- feathers; fibre; glass; hair
- Description
- Old headdress. Beaded browband with two strands of cylindrical aqua beads and black beads, with large green and black hanging beaded loops. White feathers and dark feathers trimmed with red down tips and bases. Horse hair, dyed purple, attached to feather tips. Many ermine tails, dyed horsehair, and cropped horsehair attached to each end of browband. Base of feathers wrapped with strips of old English blanket and heavy white thread. Bits of ermine skin and tails and white lace attached to scullcap made from brown felt hat.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- regalia
- beadwork
- crafts
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3019
Images
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potentially offensive content.
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