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Woman's Dance Headdress (I-sa-wa)06.331.8076

This type of headdress is restricted to women wearing it. The quill decorations are commonly used on many dance regalia articles in southern California.The decorations mounted on slender wires will move as the wearer moves.

Culture
Pomo
Material
fur, red shafted flicker feather, quill, glass bead, wool yarn, iron wire, cotton, wool cloth and cotton string
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Man's Ceremonial Dance Headdress08.491.8693

This headdress was worn perpendicularly at the back of the head, not vertically on the crown, as is common with Native American headdresses of very similar style worn by the Yokuts of Central California. In general structure it resembles Pomo headdresses. Supplementary files: "Dance headress for a man; brown straight feathers rise out of a ruff of soft feathers. A quill pendant hangs from the front of the ruff. Condition: good."

Material
magpie feather, red-shafted flicker quill, goose quill, clamshell bead, glass bead, cotton cord, plant fibre twine and willow rod
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Dance Headdress957
Dance Headdress1991-16/1

The cotton cloth is white. The cloth is cream. The skin is rabbit.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
cedar bark, cotton cloth, yarn, cloth, ermine skin, baleen, skin, rabbit, eagle down and cedar wood
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Doctor's Dance Headdress OrnamentE/1373

TANGIBLE VISIONS. WARDWELL, ALLEN, 1996 OBJECTS OF BRIGHT PRIDE: NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN ART FROM THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.FIRST EDITION. WARDWELL, ALLEN EXHIBITION CATALOG, 1978, Publisher: THE CENTER FOR INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF THE ARTS OBJECTS OF BRIGHT PRIDE: SECOND EDITION. WARDWELL, ALLEN EXHIBITION CATALOG, 1978

Culture
Tlingit: Auk Qwan
Material
wood and pigment
Made in
Auk Qwan, Sinta Ka Heen Ee, Juneau Borough, Alaska, USA ?
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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