Headdress

Frontlet

Peace headdress or frontlet entitled "Child of the Moon." The cap's foundation is made of tanned skin stitched together with leather straps to secure it and baleen strips to stabilize it. The carved wood at top depicts a crouching bird figure in high relief over a sun and moon. Abalone shell inlay around the perimeter of the carved wood, for the eyes and teeth of the figure, the eyes of the sun, and moon. Wood is painted red, green and black. On either side of the carving are orange(flicker) and dark green (mallard) feathers. The top of the headdress is lined with sea lion whiskers. Below the whiskers, a long train of four tiers of white ermine pelts is attached at the back of the cap portion using baleen strips. The pelts are stitched onto commercial cotton cloth that extends the length of the trailer.