head ornament (personal adornment)

Textile and vegetable fibre headband with four bands intersperced with three raised sections which have been woven to form a fishbone pattern. Three attached vegetable fibre decorations on the edge. The exterior is covered with red pigment. Loose vegetable fibre stands at either end which are stitched together to form the band.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
34.55
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 2.8346 x 8.5039 in.; 72 x 216 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
bark; vegetable fibre; pigment; textile; thread
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
On display: Horniman Museum > World Gallery > Americas > Pacific Northwest - generosity and potlatch
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