Trailing Headdress
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- Date
- prior to 1969
- Material
- feathers; skin; glass; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1154
- Description
- Mid-length trailing headdress. Brow band beaded green background with red and blue diamond designs, white rosettes with red centre and 4 blue wing shapes emanating from centre. Feathers bound with red wool and tied with white string. Ermine skins hang from temples. Felt hat cut off for cap, featheā¦
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- Title
- Trailing Headdress
- Date
- prior to 1969
- Material
- feathers; skin; glass; fibre
- Description
- Mid-length trailing headdress. Brow band beaded green background with red and blue diamond designs, white rosettes with red centre and 4 blue wing shapes emanating from centre. Feathers bound with red wool and tied with white string. Ermine skins hang from temples. Felt hat cut off for cap, feathers attached to it and long piece of moose hide as train, pinked on edges. Fringes at centre between flaps. Feathers have long pieces of blond horsehair attached to ends.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- ceremonial
- Credit
- Gift of Florence White, Banff, 1965
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.1154
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