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Helmet, Fighting19/645

AMERICA'S FASCINATING INDIAN HERITAGE. MAXWELL, JAMES, EDITOR, 1978, Publisher: READER'S DIGEST

Culture
Tlingit: Chilkat
Material
wood, sea lion whisker, human hair and shell
Made in
Chilkat, Haines Borough, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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Cap, Made Of Beaver Head16/271
Frontlet Headdress2922/3

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.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
ermine skin, wood, eagle skin, cotton fibre, abalone shell, shell, sea lion whisker, wool fibre and paint
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headdress, Dancing16/253

NORTHERN HAIDA MASTER CARVERS. WRIGHT, ROBIN K., 2001, Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Culture
Haida
Material
wood, pigment, abalone shell, whisker, feather, hide, ermine fur, string, baleen and sinew
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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Headdress, Dancing, Hawk16/252

PRIMITIVE ART. BOAS, FRANZ, 1951, Publisher: CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY THE DECORATIVE ART OF THE INDIANS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COAST. BOAS, FRANZ BULLETIN, 9, 1897

Culture
Tsimshianic
Material
wood, pigment, abalone shell, feather, whisker, string, cloth, skin, ermine fur, thread and sinew
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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