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War Bonnet

Object Number:45-15-527
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Sioux (uncertain)
Cheyenne (uncertain)
Provenience: United States of America
South Dakota
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Felt
Flannel
Eagle Feather
Horsehair
Buckskin
Glass
Technique:Beaded
Length: 2 cm
Credit Line:Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

Description

Felt cap, red flannel trailer bound with yellow. 73 eagle tail feathers tipped with down and greyish-yellow horsehair. Buckskin brow-band, beaded dark green, yellow, red tipis, white ground, eagle plume feathers.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition

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