War Bonnet Headdress
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- Date
- c. 1970
- Material
- feathers; hair; fibre; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3004
- Description
- Loom beaded browband, red with blue diamonds. White feathers, with green tinged black ends and attached downy tips. Base of feathers wrapped in black velvet. Felt skull cap covered with fur. Hide medallions, each with a red cross on a blue background, with buckskin fringe attached at ends of bro…
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- c. 1970
- Material
- feathers; hair; fibre; glass
- Description
- Loom beaded browband, red with blue diamonds. White feathers, with green tinged black ends and attached downy tips. Base of feathers wrapped in black velvet. Felt skull cap covered with fur. Hide medallions, each with a red cross on a blue background, with buckskin fringe attached at ends of browband.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- crafts
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3004
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