War Bonnet Headdress
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- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- feathers; glass; fibre; hair; skin
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3024
- Description
- White beaded band, with pink and green arrows and red and blue diamond design. Yellow medallions with red pinwheel and green centre attached at each end of browband along with bead wrapped long dark horsehair and ermine skin. Dark feathers, white down tips and blue down bases. Printed yellow cott…
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- Title
- War Bonnet Headdress
- Date
- 1960 – 1970
- Material
- feathers; glass; fibre; hair; skin
- Description
- White beaded band, with pink and green arrows and red and blue diamond design. Yellow medallions with red pinwheel and green centre attached at each end of browband along with bead wrapped long dark horsehair and ermine skin. Dark feathers, white down tips and blue down bases. Printed yellow cotton carrying bag with Mexican theme. Bag has drawstring one end and is open at other. Tag with CRW's writing: "John Wesley March 15, 1970 Headress (sic) not to sell."
- Subject
- Indigenous
- Stoney
- regalia
- beadwork
- John Wesley
- crafts
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3024
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