red stroud, birchbark support, beige fabric lining, various sizes of yellow, blue, white seed beads, black tubular beads, larger white and blue beads, white mother-of-pearl buttons, feathers (hawk, eagle, white cotton thread, re velvet ribbon, wooden stick wrapped with porcupine quills and remnants of a bird's head, skin inserted in top; train of plaid ribbon with a rosette and a long strip of hide to which feathers and red dyed animal hair are fastened with vegetable fiber, possibly also sinew. carved dew claw, red dye on the deer attached to one feather

band made of bark support covered by red stroud ornamented with beaded rayed circles and a wavy horizontal line. The trailer has a long twisting rope of bundled deer hair or deer tails, Several of the feathers have serrated edges.

This headdress resembles one belonging to George Henry (Peter Jones's half brother, Maungwudaus) now in the Royal Ontario Museum. It could have been acquired after Peter Jones's death by his son, who wears it in a portrait photograph taken in Washington D.C. in 1898.

Record created during GRASAC visit to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History from Dec 3-7, 2012. The visit was funded by the Smithsonian's Recovering Voices project in order to work with GRASAC to develop a methodology for incorporating indigenous language research with material culture research

Participants (during the week): Alan Corbiere, Lisa Truong, Crystal Migwans, Ruth Phillips, Mary Ann Corbiere, Rand Valentine, Myna Toulouse and Theodore Toulouse