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Dance Headdress1991-16/1

The cotton cloth is white. The cloth is cream. The skin is rabbit.

Culture
Nuxalk
Material
cedar bark, cotton cloth, yarn, cloth, ermine skin, baleen, skin, rabbit, eagle down and cedar wood
Holding Institution
The Burke: University of Washington
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Head Ornament1891.49.12

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

Culture
Haida
Material
maple wood plant, haliotis shell, animal fur skin ermine, animal sinew, textile, bird feather flicker and animal part sea lion whisker and whale baleen
Made in
British Columbia Haida Gwaii, Canada
Holding Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
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Headdress And BraceletE/1663 A

SPIRITS LIKE THE SOUND OF THE RATTLE AND DRUM: GEORGE THORNTON EMMONS' COLLECTION OF TLINGIT SHAMANS' KITS. ILIFF, BARBARA ELIZABETH DISSERTATION, 1994 UNDER MOUNT ST. ELIAS: THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE YAKUTAT TLINGIT. DE LAGUNA, FREDERICA, 7, 1972

Culture
Tlingit: Gun Nah Ho Qwan: Thlu Kar Hut Tee
Material
red cedar bark, wood, pigment, string, cloth, sinew, ermine skin, tooth and bone
Made in
Gun Nah Ho Qwan, Ah Quey River, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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Frontlet HeaddressA4173

Headdress with frontlet. Frontlet depicts eagle with killer whale above and human-like face below. Painted black around eyes and beak, blue around mouth, red on forehead, side of face, mouth, and claws. Mirrors inset for bird eyes. Frontlet is inlaid with abalone shell pieces around three edges, with an extra, smaller, row on sides. Shell pieces are tied on. Ermine pelts, some with red cloth tied to them, drape down at the sides and back. Only a few sea lion whiskers still extend at top.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
silver alloy metal ?, glass, abalone shell, wood, ermine skin, sea lion whisker and cotton fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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NecklaceA9075

Cedar rope necklace with decorated bundles of red fibre and fabric, animal skin and strips of cedar bark tied to four animal claws, one ermine body, one ermine head and a piece of broken black stone.

Culture
Tsimshian
Material
ermine skin, cedar bark, foot, fibre and stone
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head Ring1558/1

Red knitted head piece with four whole ermine skins and one piece of abalone shell. The ermine skins are sewn to the upper edge of the headdress. The rectangular piece of abalone is sewn to the front.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
synthetic fibre, ermine skin and abalone shell
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Head RingA7952

Head ring made from four bands of cedar bark woven in a box-like pattern; bands are sewn together, one on top of the other. Centre of the ring is wrapped with a section of dried ermine skin, holding a bundle of cedar bark strips.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cedar bark, ermine skin and fibre
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Frontlet Headdress709/1

Ermine headdress attached to a wooden frontlet. Frontlet in painted in blue, red and black with a central figure of a humanoid face with protruding, hooked nose encircled by a red-lined ring of abalone. Two faces, one humanoid and mask-like, the other round and black with red lips, sit atop and below the main face. The eyes of all three faces are inlaid with abalone. The frontlet is attached to the front of a circular white fur cap, attached to a long train (90 cm) of white ermine pelts with brown tails sewn onto a length of white fabric backing. A vertical row of brown whiskers protrude from the cap directly behind the top of the frontlet.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
yew wood, fibre, ermine skin, paint, abalone shell, eagle down feather ? and sea lion whisker ?
Made in
'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Mittens1186/12 a-b

Pair of mittens made of ermine skins. The mittens are very roomy with a long cuff. Both are decorated with seven black ermine tails around the cuff and one on the back of the hand. The inside is lined with white cloth.

Culture
Inuit
Material
ermine skin and fibre
Made in
Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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