Headdress Item Number: D2.183 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Plains style headdress with black felt skullcap and bright blue headband. Downy yellow-green feathers glued onto bottoms of large light white bonnet feathers with dark brown tips, and having downy white feathers in the middle wrapped in red yarn at the bottom. Feathers attached to band with a shoelace. Front of bonnet beaded with three yellow centred triangles outlined with red, dark blue, orange, brown, and light blue on a white background. Two beaded circles are at either ends of the front beaded band. The beaded circles consist of a design of four arrows pointing toward the klight blue bead centre, starting from the top and going clock-wise: red, black, red, and black, on a white background and interconnected with a light blue circular line. Four rabbit fur strips, two dangling from each side.
Narrative
Purchased by the donor from the Glenbow Museum gift shop. Originally distributed by "Iroqrafts" (to the gift shop). Irocrafts was on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, so the headdress is thought to have been made by an Iroquois craftsperson, but in the style of a Plains headdress.
Item History
What
- Name
- Headdress
- Identification Number
- D2.183
- Type of Item
- headdress
- Material
- wool fibre ?, fibre, feather, glass and rabbit skin
- Manufacturing Technique
- dyed, glued, wrapped and beaded
- Overall
- height 60.0 cm, width 27.0 cm, depth 31.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Haudenosaunee ?
- Previous Owner
- Iroqrafts
- Received from
- Iroqrafts (Seller) and Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation (Funding source)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Ontario, Canada
- Collected in
- Ontario, Canada
When
- Creation Date
- during 1969
- Ownership Date
- before April 14, 1969
- Acquisition Date
- on April 14, 1969
Other
- Item Classes
- beadwork
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 0232/0006