War Bonnet
| Object Number: | 42-3-1 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Teton |
| Provenience: | United States of America South Dakota |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Date Made: | ca. 1876 CE |
| Early Date: | 1870 |
| Late Date: | 1880 |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Buckskin Stroud Feather Hair Bead Metal Fiber |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Samuel W. Fernberger, 1942 |
| Other Number: | L-80-1 - Old Loan Number |
Description
Long tailed war-bonnet of tanned buckskin and red stroud. Eagle feathers with horsehair tufts attached by white clay. 35 feathers on tail and 22 on headdress. Headdress decorated with beaded forehead band of blue and white glass beads in stepped pyramidal design, brass discs, red, green and yellow ribbons, and buckskin thongs.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Book] Dorling Kindersley Limited. 2014. History of the World in 1,000 Objects.. London. Dorling Kindersley Limited. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 325 Full page | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Book] Preucel, Robert W., and Wierzbowski, William S., and Williams, Lucy F. 2005. Native American Voices on Identity, Art and Culture: Objects of Everlasting Esteem.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pages 94-95/Plate 33 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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