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| Object Number: | 40-8-1 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: |
Native American Voices Currently On Display |
| Culture: | Sioux (uncertain) |
| Provenience: | United States of America |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Buckskin (uncertain) Elk Skin (uncertain) Stroud Horsehair Eagle Feathers |
| Length: | 187.96 cm |
| Credit Line: | Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Clark, 1940 |
Description
Cap of elk-skin. Forehead band with dark blue and white beads in triangular pattern. Eighteen long eagle plumes, tipped with yellow horsehair, around the bonnet, forty-four on the streamer. Thirteen eagle breath-feathers on the red stroud streamer, and short feathers at base of plumes. Cheek pendants of fur strips.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Five Thousand Years of Vanity (06 Jan 1944 - 28 Feb 1944) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) | View Objects in Exhibition |
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