Headdress
Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Christian F. Schuster (1868-1957, a collector and amateur archaeologist in Holyoke, Massachusetts); purchased by MAI from Christian Schuster in 1953.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- 1825-1850
- Catalog Number
- 22/1772
- Barcode
- 221772.000
- Culture/People
- Penobscot
- Possible collector
- Christian F. Schuster (Christian Friedrich Schuster/C. F. Schuster), Non-Indian, 1868-1957
- Previous owner
- Christian F. Schuster (Christian Friedrich Schuster/C. F. Schuster), Non-Indian, 1868-1957
- Seller
- Christian F. Schuster (Christian Friedrich Schuster/C. F. Schuster), Non-Indian, 1868-1957
- Object Type
- Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
- Object Name
- Headdress
- Media/Materials
- Hide, feather/feathers, glass bead/beads, hide thong/babiche
- Techniques
- Overlay beadwork
- Place
- Maine; USA
- See related items
- Penobscot
- Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses
- Record ID
- NMAI_236260
