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38-2-1

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 38-2-1
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Feather | Felt | Leather | Buckskin | Glass
Description

Feather. Made on felt cap foundation with leather forehead band inside and tipi pattern beaded band with rosettes, outside. Beadwork not Indian. 30 turkey feathers with stems wrapped with green felt and with down feathers dyed red, yellow, green, and lavendar attached. Cheek pendants of many coloured ribbons, beaded buckskin and down feathers.

Credit Line Gift of Horace T. Dumont, Jr, 1938

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