Peyote Headdress
Big House Headdress
70-9-477
From: North America | United States of America | Missouri (uncertain) | Oklahoma (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 70-9-477 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Oto (uncertain) | Osage (uncertain) |
| Provenience | North America | United States of America | Missouri (uncertain) | Oklahoma (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Bear Fur | Horn (animal part) | Shell | Leather |
| Iconography | Big House Ceremony | Peyote Ceremony |
| Description | Ceremonial bear fur headband, with one horn from a young cow, and a rosette made a shell button sewn onto layered discs of green, red, and blue leather. The horn is surrounded by two concentric fringes of blue-dyed leather. Similar to the type pictured in Speck, The Delaware Big House Ceremony, p. 95, except that instead of two horns with a rosette in between, it has a single horn on one side and a rosette on the other. |
| Length | 42 cm |
| Width | 15 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Samuel Pennypacker, 1970 |
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