Cedar Bark Headdress Item Number: 7736 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Exhibit Label
This headdress was worn by George Hunt's daughter-in-law, Tlakwagilayookwa (Sara Smith Hunt, later Martin) who played Naida, in Edward S. Curtis' film In the Land of the Head Hunters, 1914.
Item History
- Received from J. S. Marcusson
What
- Name
- Cedar Bark Headdress
- Identification Number
- 7736
- Type of Item
- cedar bark headdress
- Material
- cedar bark, dentalium shell, ermine, abalone shell and thread
- Manufacturing Technique
- plaited, cut, drilled and sewn
- Overall
- diameter 10.0 in
Who
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Received from
- J. S. Marcusson
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Credit
- Purchased from J. S. Marcusson
- Collection
- Burke Museum Ethnology Collection