War Bonnet
Object Details
- Collector
- Mr. James Mooney
- Donor Name
- Bureau Of American Ethnology
- Canvas-covered hide cap and red stroud cloth trailer with canvas lining, upright feathers with cloth-wrapped shafts and tufts of horsehair at tips on cap and trailer, lazy stitch beadwork on brow band, white fur streamers on each side of cap, stripped quill with breath feather at tip attached to top of cap. 101.5" (257 cm). Records: Worn mounted. (C). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
- Record Last Modified
- 30 Oct 2020
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Kiowa
- Accession Date
- 8 Oct 1892
- Accession Number
- 026286
- USNM Number
- E165257-0
- Object Type
- Headdress
- Place
- Not Given, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Ethnology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8345865
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3567e0169-b70d-4e97-9d45-3e302705ab3b
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