Headdress in the style of a bearclaw headdress, except the "claws" are each carved from sheep horn. Two thick leather strips are stitched together at the ends to form a circular forehead strap. Attached to the strap are 24 long, curved "claws" sewn on at their proximal ends. Each is attached by a nail to a small square of horn. Their distal ends are blunted, and a small hole has been bored through each tip for cotton string to pass through. The string connects the horn claws to each other and to two large feather pieces (lower shafts), as well as to short leather thongs. Thin pieces of sinew are wrapped around the string. A piece of cotton is tied to each side, dropping down under the headdress where they are tied together.

Large sheep (or cow?) horn spoon. (3051/1882-1887 were grouped together as a similar lot of 6 mountain sheep or cow horn spoons or ladles, out of the larger group of 1928 spoons.)

Carved spoon with a goat horn handle and sheep horn bowl. (3051/1872-1881 were grouped together as a similar lot of 10 composite spoons, out of the larger group of 1928 spoons.)

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. MURDOCH, DAVID, 1995, Publisher: EYEWITNESS BOOKS - ALFRED A. KNOPF

THE LILLOOET INDIANS. TEIT, JAMES MEMOIRS, 4, 1906

THE LILLOOET INDIANS. TEIT, JAMES MEMOIRS, 4, 1906