Buffalo horn headdress
- Made:
- 1865-1900 in United States and Great Plains
- maker:
- Sioux people
Buffalo horn headdress, pair of black horns, curved round with pointed tips joined by wooden mount hide cuff around central mount, part of Shaman's costume, Sioux tribe(?), Plains Indians, USA, 1865-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A14853
- Materials:
- horn, buffalo, hide, cuff and wood, mount
- Measurements:
-
overall: 280 mm x 550 mm x 110 mm, 1.7 kg
horns: 98 mm,
mount: 102 mm,
- type:
- headdresses
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
