War Bonnet Headdress
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- Date
- c. 1960
- Material
- feathers; glass; skin; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3014
- Description
- Beaded band of long black, white and blue horizontal lengths of beads glued to hide. White feathers with black ends, yellow tip feathers, and yellow down bases. Feathers wrapped with buckskin and white tape at base. Medallions attached to each end of browband with hanging bead wrapped thong with …
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- c. 1960
- Material
- feathers; glass; skin; fibre
- Description
- Beaded band of long black, white and blue horizontal lengths of beads glued to hide. White feathers with black ends, yellow tip feathers, and yellow down bases. Feathers wrapped with buckskin and white tape at base. Medallions attached to each end of browband with hanging bead wrapped thong with tassels at the end. Fur and feather streamers attached to medallions. Light coloured felt skullcap.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- crafts
- beadwork
- regalia
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3014
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