Headdress
40-8-1
From: United States of America
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 40-8-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sioux (uncertain) |
| Provenience | United States of America |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Buckskin (uncertain) | Elk Skin (uncertain) | Stroud | Horsehair | Eagle Feathers |
| Description | Cap of elk-skin. Forehead band with dark blue and white beads in triangular pattern. Eighteen long eagle plumes, tipped with yellow horsehair, around the bonnet, forty-four on the streamer. Thirteen eagle breath-feathers on the red stroud streamer, and short feathers at base of plumes. Cheek pendants of fur strips. |
| Length | 187.96 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Clark, 1940 |
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