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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.

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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.