Headdress Item Number: 3391/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Headdress made of a brown felt cap with a small leather and beaded band around the forehead. Long white and dark brown feathers attached above the band, all around edges of cap. Six small white feathers sewn directly to top of cap. Long feather shafts wrapped in red fabric and secured to the brown cap by loops of skin. Strands of animal hair adhered to white, circular pieces of fabric that are attached to tips of all of the long feathers. Beaded forehead band has designs of crosses and pyramids done in white, dark blue, orange, black and red. Band has two beaded circles attached to ends with crosses and triangles done in light blue, red and black. Strands of silk-like fabric drape down from centre of beaded circles. Strands are white, lavender, dark blue and dark yellow.
According to the donor the headdress was purchased at the Fort Peck Reservation in the 1960s. According to their website, the "Fort Peck Reservation is home to two separate American Indian nations", the "Sioux divisions of Sisseton, Wahpetons, the Yanktonais, and the Teton Hunkpapa" and the ..."Assiniboine bands of Canoe Paddler and Red Bottom". The reservation is located in the northeast corner of Montana, on the north side of the Missouri River.