Headdress Item Number: 949/14 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

A headdress consisting of a rigid crown covered with blue cotton twill on the inside and red cotton on the outside. The outside is decorated with horizontal embroidered bands consisting of a pattern of red and blue diamond shapes. There is also a horizontal row of gold-coloured sequins, above which, there is a short horizontal row of silver-coloured flowers. Along the bottom edge, there is a red fringe. There are five vertical decorative elements consisting of a wool red, white, and green pompom at the top and dangling pendants of beads, tassels, bells, buttons, and shells. Another vertical element os a black cotton band with a cross stitch design which is attached across the inside of the crown and hangs down on the outside.