Headdress
Unknown people (Plains)
Unknown people (Plateau)
Plateau
Plains
about 1880
Buffalo horn, eagle feathers, downy feathers, hide, rawhide, glass beads, brass hawk bells, metal bells, wood, silk ribbon, horse hair, bison hair, felt, cotton cloth, wool cloth, ermine tubes (made to look like ermine tails), rabbit fur, dye, thread
Overall: 29 1/2 × 11 13/16 in. (75 × 30 cm)
Overall: 11 13/16 in. (30 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of John L. Powell
167.50.24249
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Headwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Native American: Plateau
Not on view
Exhibition History
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26-August 18, 2019.
Provenance
Collected by Father Marcellus M. Cabo (about 1915-1974) from a Menominee family, Neopit, Wisconsin, about 1954-1967; John L. Powell, Beaver Meadow Farm, West Fairlee, Vermont; given to present collection, November 9, 1967.
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