Headdress
NA11768
From: United States of America | Alaska | Southeast Alaska | Sitka (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA11768 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Tlingit |
| Provenience | United States of America | Alaska | Southeast Alaska | Sitka (uncertain) |
| Culture Area | Northwest Coast Culture Area |
| Locus | Sitka Kaagwaantaan Clan | Star House |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Cotton | Ermine | Bear Ears |
| Description | War headdress made from two separate patches of brown fur. The two patches are attached along the lower ends with cloth straps which are stitched onto each patch. Likely made from bear ears. A white ermine pelt is folded around each patch of fur with the ends extending away from the headdress. |
| Length | 33 cm |
| Credit Line | Wanamaker Expedition to the Northwest Coast; Louis Shotridge, 1927 |
| Other Number | 124 - Other Number |
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