War Bonnet Headdress
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- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- feathers; skin; glass; fibre; metal; hair
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3016
- Description
- Wide beaded browband, yellow background with pink and dark blue diamonds, alternating centres and borders. Bright pink feathers hanging from right temple, orange feathers hanging from left temple. Eagle feathers bound with red wool and white tape. Bright orange downy feathers at base of feathers…
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- prior to 1970
- Material
- feathers; skin; glass; fibre; metal; hair
- Description
- Wide beaded browband, yellow background with pink and dark blue diamonds, alternating centres and borders. Bright pink feathers hanging from right temple, orange feathers hanging from left temple. Eagle feathers bound with red wool and white tape. Bright orange downy feathers at base of feathers. Four of the same feathers at pate. Long grey horsehair strands attached to tips of feathers. Pinned onto cap is a small metal cat-like face with light green glass eyes.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- beadwork
- regalia
- crafts
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3016
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