War Bonnet Headdress
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- Date
- prior to 1930
- Material
- feathers; skin; hair; fibre; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3022
- Description
- Reddish orange and dark blue loom beaded band, sewn to hide, with orange beaded loops as hanging trim. Buckskin and green beaded feather streamers at each end of browband. Dark feathers, some striped, with dyed orange wavy hair (wool?) attached to tips. Yellow down bases with pink wrappings. Brow…
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- prior to 1930
- Material
- feathers; skin; hair; fibre; glass
- Description
- Reddish orange and dark blue loom beaded band, sewn to hide, with orange beaded loops as hanging trim. Buckskin and green beaded feather streamers at each end of browband. Dark feathers, some striped, with dyed orange wavy hair (wool?) attached to tips. Yellow down bases with pink wrappings. Brown felt skullcap.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3022
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