Headdress Item Number: Z 34978 from the MAA: University of Cambridge

Description

A bent and tied cedar head ring with cedar bark wrapped and knotted around it and two salmon carved from flat slats of cedar secured to the top. The salmon have small cross-hatched fins, gill slits eyes and mouths, they are also painted black along the upper edge. The cedar bark wrapping is very loose and fragile.; Good

Context

The original European tribal names and, where possible, current tribal names have both been given in separate GLT fields.; Such headdresses were worn during the Kwakiutl winter ceremonials (G.Crowther).