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Introduction

Split-horn headdress, made of a tanned hide cap decorated with quillwork, beads, trailing dyed red horsehair, and two halves of a split horn. Sauk in origin.

Nation of Maker: Other
Nation of Origin

MdqB file: Sauk (Dubois et Berger 1978).

Date Made or Date Range: Mid 19 C to Early 20 C
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Based on style and materials, Autumn Epple theorizes the headdress dates between 1840 and 1900.

Current Location: Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 71.1934.33.32 D
Collection Narratives and Histories

Déposant : Bibliothèque municipale de Versailles; Précédente collection : Musée de l'Homme (Amérique), inventaire: 34.33.32

Exhibition History

Premières Nations, Collections Royales, at the Musée du quai Branly, February 13 - May 13, 2007.

Publication History

Christian Feest, Premières Nations, Collections Royales: Les Indiens des forêts et des prairies d'Amérique du Nord (Paris: musée du quai Branly, 2007).

Sources to Learn More

Daniel Dubois and Yves Berger, Les Indiens des Plaines (Paris: Dargaud, 1978), 169. Attributed to Sauks and Foxes.

GKS Reference Number: 25276
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, headdress. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1934.33.32 D. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 25276.

Approximate Place of Origin

45.8, -83.9

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