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TURBAN AND FEATHER HEADDRESS FROM A MALE AMERICAN INDIAN COSTUME

Creator(s):

Currently in storage


About this object

Turban style American Indian headdress is created on a felt covered straw base skull cap. The cap is wrapped with striped gold silk fabric and decorated with blue faceted, round, flat shaped glass jewels. Sixteen long turkey feathers decorated the center portion on the cap with two sets of two feathers hang down on each side of the turban. The base of all feathers are embellished with copper color metal flange and red and blue round beads. Orange paint has been applied to the feathers that hang at each side.

Object name:
TURBAN AND FEATHER HEADDRESS FROM A MALE AMERICAN INDIAN COSTUME
Made from:
silk --felt --straw --turkey feathers
Made in:
New York, USA
Date made:
ca. 1920
Size:
Feather length base to tip 23 in.; Cap circumference 22 in.

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
48.145.7
Signature marks:
LABEL: An eagle crest with the words “Registered,” “Moveo et Proficio,” “Knox,” “New York,” “The Vogue,” “West Palm Beach, Fla” [interior silk lining of cap]
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973