War Bonnet
42-3-1
From: United States of America | South Dakota
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 42-3-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Teton |
| Provenience | United States of America | South Dakota |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Date Made | ca. 1876 CE |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Buckskin | Stroud | Feather | Hair | Bead | Metal | Fiber |
| Description | Long tailed war-bonnet of tanned buckskin and red stroud. Eagle feathers with horsehair tufts attached by white clay. 35 feathers on tail and 22 on headdress. Headdress decorated with beaded forehead band of blue and white glass beads in stepped pyramidal design, brass discs, red, green and yellow ribbons, and buckskin thongs. |
| Credit Line | Gift of Samuel W. Fernberger, 1942 |
| Other Number | L-80-1 - Old Loan Number |
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