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Frontlet Headdress687/1
Headdress with a frontlet of red painted wood inlaid around three edges with coppers and abalone. In the centre of frontlet is a human figure, elbows resting on knees with hands held up, palms outward; figure has inlaid abalone for eyes and teeth. Frontlet is attached to a white fur hat which, in turn, is attached to a long train (80 cm le) of off-white ermine skins, backed by red cotton. The ermine tails--the tips of which are dark brown--each have a red strip of cotton tied to them.
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
- Material
- wood, metal, paint, shell, ermine skin, cotton fibre and rabbit skin
- Made in
- 'Yalis (Alert Bay), British Columbia, Canada
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia