Headdress
38-8-1
From: United States of America (uncertain) | Canada (uncertain) | New York (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 38-8-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Iroquois (uncertain) |
| Provenience | United States of America (uncertain) | Canada (uncertain) | New York (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Northeast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Feather | Cotton | Glass |
| Description | War bonnet. Headband broad in front, narrowing to the back; soft-tanned brown buckskin, stiffened with cardboard, lined with green muslin, and bound with red braid; beaded in floral design over paper pattern with large red, yellow, green, blue and white beads. Feathers from turkey, close set with underside facing outward and graded in length. |
| Length | 144.78 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Rodman Wanamaker III, 1938 |
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