Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Bessie B. Newcomb (probably Bessie Bulen Newcomb [1883-1979], a city clerk in Long Beach, California, who grew up in Montana); purchased by MAI from Bessie B. Newcomb in 1948 using funds donated by the Viking Fund, Inc. (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
- Previous owner
- Bessie B. Newcomb, Non-Indian
- Seller
- Bessie B. Newcomb, Non-Indian
- Presenter/funding source
- Viking Fund, Incorporated (The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.), 1941-
- Object Name
- Man's headdress
- Media/Materials
- Buffalo hide/skin, buffalo horn
- Techniques
- Stitched
- Dimensions
- 18 x 65 x 41 cm
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
