Headdress

Description

Man's headdress, of tanned caribou skin mounted with seventeen grizzly bears' claws, the edge of the skin band overstitched with quills: North America, Canada, Northwest Territories, Dene, c. 1859

Museum reference

A.480.6

Collection

Americas

Object name

Headdress

Production information

Unknown
Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Date

c. 1859

Style / Culture

Subarctic, Dene
Tłı̨chǫ
Athapaskan

Materials

Caribou skin, Bear claw

Physical description

Tanned caribou skin band mounted with seventeen bears' claws; edge of the skin band overstitched with quills

Collection place(s)

Northwest Territories, Canada, North America

Associations

Hudson's Bay Company

Exhibitions

• Living Lands (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

The Athabaskans: Strangers of the North. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, 1974. Exhibition catalogue from 'An international travelling exhibition from the collection of the National Museum of Man, Canada, and the Royal Scottish Museum'. cat. no. 206

Idiens, Dale, A catalogue of Northern Athapaskan Indian artefacts in the collection of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Art and Archaeology 3, March 1979

On display

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