Red cotton, brown velvet, blue cotton tape, front medallion on brown wool with red cotton tape around edge; assorted feathers including hawk and eagle; size 10 transparent clear and rose; white lined rose, opaque grey, mustard, periwinkle blue, white, greasy turquoise, teal; white bugle beads

Cap constructed of a cap of red cotton lined with ? with a and a band of brown velvet around the edge embroidered in applique technique with beads, separate medallion sewn to centre front, feathers tied in bundles with string into four clumps, three sewn to the back of the band, one sewn to the medallion

8-lobed flower or star with red centre in the medallion, sun like motifs alternating with crayfish motifs around the band

Construction of this headdress resembles an Onkwehonwe gustoweh

Garments worn by John Tecumseh Henry and his wife are documented as having been worn at the 1860 meeting with the Prince of Wales, but could have been made and worn during the 1840s during their performances in Europe

F. Barlow Cumberland, Catalogue and Notes of the Oronhyatekha Historical Collection (Toronto: Independent Order of Foresters, 1904), p 25,

Item 89. "Head-dress decorated with Beads and Porcupine work of wife of Chief John Tecumseh Henry. See 60. This head-dress was worn by the wife of, and No. 91 by, Chief John Tecumseh Henry when presented to the Prince of Wales, 1860. See photograph No. 418."

Unknown artist, headdress of wife of Chief John Tecumseh Henry. Currently in the Royal Ontario Museum, 911.3.80. Item photographed and described as part of a GRASAC research trip December 2008; GRASAC item id 1034.

GRASAC team research trip to the Royal Ontario Museum, Dec 15-19 2008, funded by SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant. Participants: Heidi Bohaker, Alan Corbiere, Lewis Debassige, Anne De Stecher, Darlene Johnston, Stacey Loyer, Trudy Nicks, Ruth Phillips

Dec 18 ethnology team: Cory Willmott, Ruth Phillips, Trudy Nicks, Stacey Loyer, assisted by Tracey Forester