Headdress

Headdress or frontlet entitled "Suspicious Bear." The carved wood has a design of a skeletonized bear in low relief with all four limbs carved in high relief. The bear is painted green with black eyebrows and ears. Red paint is used for the lips, body, and limbs. Abalone shell inlay is used for the eyes, teeth, ears, stomach, limbs, and around the perimeter of the carving. Red felt is attached to the edge of the carving. Flanking the carving, an ermine pelt is attached on either side. The top of the headdress is lined with sea lion whiskers. Below the whiskers on the back of the headdress, orange and black flicker feathers are attached with gray feathers below those. Finally, below the gray feathers is a section of white, down feathers. A long train of three tiers of white ermine pelts is attached to a cloth backing, which attaches beneath the carving. At this attachment point, the backing is covered with iridescent, mallard duck feathers. Hide straps are attached beneath the carving to affix the headdress to the wearer's head.