Gift in memory of Isaac M. Bates by his children and grandchildren.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art.

Long arrow with eagle feathers affixed near the notched end of the shaft with cords, and a broad bamboo arrowhead inserted in the hollow cane stick at the other end, also wrapped in cord.

By exchange

Circular braided cedar bark head ring with an abalone shell crest in the shape of an eagle attached to the front below the bark ties. Eaglet skin, with the fine, soft down still attached, covers the entire top area and hangs down in a tail at the back, below the head ring. The head ring is lined with cotton.

Headdress and carved wooden frontlet with an extensive ermine trailer. The frontlet’s main figure is an eagle with a small bear head and paws below and a wolf(?) head and paws above. The eagle has shell eyes and many abalone decorative inlays around it. Sea lion whiskers project upward from the top of the headdress. The entire upper head area is covered with eaglet skin with the fine down still attached. A long ermine trailer sewn on red cotton hangs below the headpiece. There is an abalone eagle crest attached on the left side.