Roach Headdress
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- Date
- 1973
- Material
- hair; fibre; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3037
- Description
- Stiff hair dyed yellow with beige yarn (wool?) rows sewn together in concentric circles at front, and parallel rows along length. Roach attached to loom beaded headband with elastic and heavy white thread. Headband is yellow with blue chevrons and diamonds. Two groups of two hanging yellow and b…
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- Title
- Roach Headdress
- Date
- 1973
- Material
- hair; fibre; glass
- Description
- Stiff hair dyed yellow with beige yarn (wool?) rows sewn together in concentric circles at front, and parallel rows along length. Roach attached to loom beaded headband with elastic and heavy white thread. Headband is yellow with blue chevrons and diamonds. Two groups of two hanging yellow and blue loops in centre (one over each eye when worn), with short beaded yellow feather streamer attached at outside. Tag with CRW’s writing: “Bought from Viola Sept. 7, 1973” and on tag reverse “Stoney” written in pencil.
- Subject
- Indigenous, Stoney
- ceremoial
- regalia
- beadwork
- Viola
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.3037
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