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Introduction

Split-horn headdress, made of a birch bark cap decorated with quillwork, beads, dyed deer and horse hair, paint, feather tufts, and two halves of a split horn. Mandan or Osage in origin.

Nation of Maker: Other
Nation of Origin

MdqB file: Mandan (Dubois et Berger 1978; Feest), or Osage (M.Baillargeon).

Materials

Birch bark, porcupine quills, beads, dyed deer and horse hair, paint, feathers, two halves of a split horn.

Current Location: Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: 71.1878.32.156
GKS Reference Number: 26353
How to Cite this Item

Unknown artist, headdress. Currently in the Musée du quai Branly, 71.1878.32.156. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip; GRASAC item id 26353.

Approximate Place of Origin

43.7918, -84.2994

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