Headdress Ornament
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- Date
- 1950 – 1970
- Material
- hair; grass; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0097
- Description
- A buckskin thong with parts of six ermine pelts attached to it. Two full body pelts, legs and tails, two lengthwise strips of pelt, and two pelts sewn into tubes with red straw attached in the tail zone to hang down.
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- Title
- Headdress Ornament
- Date
- 1950 – 1970
- Material
- hair; grass; skin
- Dimensions
- 10.0 x 46.0 cm
- Description
- A buckskin thong with parts of six ermine pelts attached to it. Two full body pelts, legs and tails, two lengthwise strips of pelt, and two pelts sewn into tubes with red straw attached in the tail zone to hang down.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- regalia
- ceremonial
- accessories
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0097
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