head-dress
- Museum number
- Am1972,Q.14.d
- Description
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Headdress made of skin, with feather and quillwork decoration, horns and claws attached to front.
- Production date
- 1893 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 40 centimetres
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Width: 155 centimetres
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Depth: 13 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attached label (printed): "Christy Collection. Received from Jeffs. 1 July 1893." No further information; not noted in Christy "Additions" indices.
Register addition "Plains, Blackfoot".
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1988 15 Jan-1 May, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1988 1 Jul-1 Nov, Museum of Civilization, Lorne Building, Ottawa, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples
1999 25 Jun-2011 2 Mar, BM Room 26; Gallery of North America, Case: "The Canadian Plains"
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1972,Q.14.d