- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Headdress of deer (short) and porcupine (long) hair, dyed pink at base. Cloth base.
- Geographical reference
- Pine Ridge Reservation
- Cultural groups
- Oceti Sakowin - Sioux
- Person
- Field collector Sarah Coolidge Vance
- PRM source Denver Art Museum
- PRM source Frederic Huntington Douglas
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1943
- Date collected
- By 1943
- Acquisition information
- Exchanged: 1949
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Hair, Material Textile, Material Pigment, Material Porcupine Quill Animal, Process Dyed, Process Woven
- Dimensions
- Length 285 mm base
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1949.3.41 Other numbers: Denver No. FS-11-G.
- Research and responses
Originally entered on database as Lakota (Sioux). [CW 14 5 99]
Search terms: Ornament, Clothing Headgear, Head Ornament, Headdress
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