Trailing Headdress
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- Date
- ca. 1880 – 1950
- Material
- eagle feathers; fibre; hair; skin; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3029
- Description
- Narrow beaded headband of blue with yellow squares outlined in orange. Medallions, each beaded differently, with leather streamers and ermine skins at each end of browband. Dark golden eagle feathers, white horsehair tips, down at base. Train of green and purple fabric.
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- Title
- Trailing Headdress
- Date
- ca. 1880 – 1950
- Material
- eagle feathers; fibre; hair; skin; glass
- Description
- Narrow beaded headband of blue with yellow squares outlined in orange. Medallions, each beaded differently, with leather streamers and ermine skins at each end of browband. Dark golden eagle feathers, white horsehair tips, down at base. Train of green and purple fabric.
- Subject
- Indigenous
- regalia
- beadwork
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3029
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