War Bonnet Headdress
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- 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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