War Bonnet Headdress
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- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- feather; hair, horse; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0008
- Description
- A short feather headdress attached to a felt cap. The shafts of the white feathers are bound to the cap with red blanket cloth and have horsehair tufts at each tip. The headband is trimmed with white, blue, red and gold beads. A feather hangs by each ear. Red and green yarn is suspended from the …
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- 1930 – 1940
- Material
- feather; hair, horse; fibre
- Dimensions
- 50.0 (overall) cm
- Description
- A short feather headdress attached to a felt cap. The shafts of the white feathers are bound to the cap with red blanket cloth and have horsehair tufts at each tip. The headband is trimmed with white, blue, red and gold beads. A feather hangs by each ear. Red and green yarn is suspended from the headband with key chains.
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0008
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