Headband

Museum number:

1-10039

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21010010039

Alternate number:

148 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.216, Acc.217, Acc.218, Acc.220, Acc.222, Acc.226, Acc.227, Acc.229, Acc.230, Acc.231, Acc.234, Acc.235, Acc.236, Acc.237, Acc.238, Acc.241, Acc.242, Acc.243, Acc.244, Acc.245, Acc.246, Acc.249, Acc.250, Acc.251, and Acc.254

Object count:

1

Description:

Made from the tail feathers of the yellow hammer woodpecker. There are 4 feathers to one bird. Worn on ceremonial occasions. This piece with 10038 (skirt), 10041 (headband), 10043, 10044, 10045, and 10046 (dance plumes) are said by owner to form complete dance suit.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Samuel A. Barrett

Collection place:

West Point, Calaveras County, California

Verbatim coll. place:

Made at West Point, used at Ione per Barrett notes.

Culture or time period:

Eastern Miwok

Collector:

Samuel A. Barrett

Collection date:

1906

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Headbands (headgear)

Function:

5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama

Accession date:

1906

Context of use:

Worn on ceremonial occasions. This piece with 10038 (skirt), 10041 (headband), 10043, 10044, 10045, and 10046 (dance plumes) are said by owner to form complete dance suit.

Department:

Native California (archaeology and ethnology)

Comment:

Native name: "tami kkele". Remarks: Samuel A. Barrett's notes say "that this headpiece...was "made of tail feathers by a Captain before Ephe Cummings" (?)". Photo: 15-5000. Published: Milw. Publ. Mus. Bull. v. 2, pl. 73; Bureau of American Ethnology Bull. 78, pl. 58.

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