The cloth is blue. The felt is red. The button is white. The bead is white. The thread is white.

The paint is black.

The paint is black, red, green, and blue.

The felt is green, red, white, black, gold, yellow, orange, pink, and purple.

The felt is black and red. The bead is blue, black, red, and white. The string is white. The thread is red and black.

Headdress frontlet with a wooden bear crest, set within a frame, and painted red, green, and black. The back is unpainted. The frame as well as the bear's eyes, teeth, and paws have inlaid sections of carved abalone shell. Long ermine trailers hang down the back and sea lion whiskers stick out from the top. The headdress would have been worn for a Welcome or Peace Dance. The face's thick, heavy, black eyebrows help to corroborate this attribution. A fistful of eagle down feathers would be placed inside the center of the frontlet. As the chief danced and bowed and greeted his audience, the feathers would float out of his headdress symbolizing peace and friendship. In Tshimshian this was known as Am-halait or "power from the Sky." CONDITION: The object is in fair and stable condition. Special care in handling the piece should be taken for it was treated with arsenic in the past.

Wide, otter fur headband with a white bead edging, black felt on the inside.