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Headdress, Dancing16/248
Headdress, Dancing16/247

CHARLES EDENSHAW. WRIGHT, ROBIN K. AND DAINA AUGAITIS, CURATORS EXHIBITION CATALOG, 2013, Publisher: BLACK DOG PUBLISHING, LONDON, UK NORTHERN HAIDA MASTER CARVERS. WRIGHT, ROBIN K., 2001, Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS

Culture
Haida
Material
cloth, wood, pigment, abalone shell, feather, baleen, sinew, skin, hide, ermine fur, sea lion whisker and thread
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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Headdress, Dancing16/243
HeaddressNWC/0028

Culture
Tlingit ?
Material
wood, feather, hide, ermine fur, pigment and thread
Made in
“ // ” ?
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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Pair of Chief's Fringed Dress Leggings50.67.5b-c

These leggings very early pre-1830s Blackfoot. Bits of ermine weasel remain attached to the fringe. Beads are all larger pony sizes.

Culture
Blackfoot and Piegan
Material
hide, bead, red cloth binding, ermine fur and pigment wood
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Headdress Frontlet05.588.7413

Headdress frontlet with a wooden bear crest, set within a frame, and painted red, green, and black. The back is unpainted. The frame as well as the bear's eyes, teeth, and paws have inlaid sections of carved abalone shell. Long ermine trailers hang down the back and sea lion whiskers stick out from the top. The headdress would have been worn for a Welcome or Peace Dance. The face's thick, heavy, black eyebrows help to corroborate this attribution. A fistful of eagle down feathers would be placed inside the center of the frontlet. As the chief danced and bowed and greeted his audience, the feathers would float out of his headdress symbolizing peace and friendship. In Tshimshian this was known as Am-halait or "power from the Sky." CONDITION: The object is in fair and stable condition. Special care in handling the piece should be taken for it was treated with arsenic in the past.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
wood, abalone shell, ermine skin, sea lion whisker ?, flicker feather, eagle down feather, cord, felt and pigment
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Head Ornament1891.49.11

Chief's headdress with frontlet carved with a bear and frog and a train with ermine skins. [CAK 10/02/2010]

Culture
Haida
Material
maple wood plant, haliotis shell, animal fur skin ermine, pigment, bird feather flicker, cotton textile plant and cedar bark fibre textile plant
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii NW Coast, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Head Ornament1941.2.102

Chief's headdress with carved frontlet depicting a beaver with bird down and a train of ermine skins. [CAK 11/02/2010]

Culture
Haida
Material
maple wood plant, haliotis shell, swansdown feather bird, animal fur skin ermine, cotton textile plant, wood and animal leather skin
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii NW Coast, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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