Object Details
- Collection History
- Said to have been acquired by an unnamed man from the Netherlands in the late 1800s during travel in the United States; maintained in his grandson's possession in the Netherlands until 2003 when it was sold on eBay (online auction site) to an individual in the United States; seized by United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) agents on its entry into the US because it includes feathers from protected species; transferred by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to NMAI in 2005.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Non-Indian
- Previous owner
- United States Fish and Wildlife Service
- Donor
- United States Fish and Wildlife Service
- Date created
- 1870-1890
- Object Name
- Man's headdress
- Media/Materials
- Buffalo hide/skin, buffalo horn, ermine skin/fur, eagle feather/feathers, owl feather/feathers, glass bead/beads, shell beads, copper alloy beads, wool cloth
- Techniques
- Tied, strung
- Dimensions
- 45 x 30 x 50 cm
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
