War Bonnet Headdress
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- Date
- c. 1920
- Material
- feathers; fibre; glass; hair
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3009
- Description
- Loom-beaded white browband with green, orange, and dark red diagonal stripes. Light eagle feathers with dark tips and white down attached to tips. Feathers wrapped with green and yellow yarn at base. Purple and red ribbon streamers and ermine at each end of browband. Tag: "Silas Abraham. war bonn…
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- c. 1920
- Material
- feathers; fibre; glass; hair
- Description
- Loom-beaded white browband with green, orange, and dark red diagonal stripes. Light eagle feathers with dark tips and white down attached to tips. Feathers wrapped with green and yellow yarn at base. Purple and red ribbon streamers and ermine at each end of browband. Tag: "Silas Abraham. war bonnet and old eagle hat. Belongs to CRW"
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- crafts
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3009
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