Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from one of several Yámana individuals (Walter, Wits, Mary, or Sarmiento) in 1925 during the MAI Tierra del Fuego Expedition, led by anthropologist Samuel K. Lothrop (1892-1965, MAI staff member).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan)
- Expedition
- MAI Tierra del Fuego Expedition (1924-1925) (Lothrop Tierra del Fuego Expedition)
- Expedition leader
- Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (S.K. Lothrop/SKL), Non-Indian, 1892-1965
- Possible owner
- Sarmiento (unknown surname), Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan)
- Wits (unknown surname), Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan)
- Walter (unknown surname), Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan)
- Mary (unknown surname), Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan)
- Date created
- circa 1920
- Object Name
- Headband
- Media/Materials
- Heron feather/feathers, cordage
- Techniques
- Wrapped
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
- Indigenous Term
- hapawára
