Headring-Basketry Item Number: E299067-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
From card: "Worn during the Tlokwalli ceremony by a man who owned a guardian spirit. Cedar bark ring with tresses and with four pendant clam shell rattles. Black feathers bundled with cedar bark tress; pendants of large blue glass beads. Illus.: Hndbk. N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 7, Northwest Coast, Fig. 2b, pg. 434." Identified in Handbook caption as "Head ring of the Black Face Society, worn by a man who owned a guardian spirit. Ring and tresses are cedar bark, from which are suspended clam shell rattles."
Item History
- Made in Washington, USA
- Collected by Mrs. Fannie E. Taylor in Washington, USA
- Received on March 30, 1917
What
- Name
- Headring-Basketry
- Identification Number
- E299067-0
- Type of Item
- head ring
Who
- Culture
- Quileute
- Field Collector
- Mrs. Fannie E. Taylor
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Washington, USA
- Collected in
- Washington, USA
When
- Acquisition Date
- on March 30, 1917
Other
- Accession Number
- 060982