Trailing Headdress
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- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- feather, eagle; skin; hair, horse
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0003
- Description
- A full length 'trailer'’ war bonnet of feathers attached with beads to a long strip of hide. The crown feathers are of a mature golden eagle, the tail feathers of a mature golden eagle, and one wing feather of a golden eagle. There are horsehair tufts extending from the tips of the feathers.
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- Title
- Trailing Headdress
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- feather, eagle; skin; hair, horse
- Dimensions
- 190.0 cm
- Description
- A full length 'trailer'’ war bonnet of feathers attached with beads to a long strip of hide. The crown feathers are of a mature golden eagle, the tail feathers of a mature golden eagle, and one wing feather of a golden eagle. There are horsehair tufts extending from the tips of the feathers.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- John Hunter
- ceremonial
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0003
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