Woman's Hair Decoration

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Photograph by John Bentham.
Woman's Hair Decoration
Photograph by John Bentham.
Datec. 1870-75
MediumLeather with dentalium shells and trade beads
DimensionsOverall (at widest): 14 in. × 4 1/2 in. (35.6 × 11.4 cm) Overall (at narrowest): 14 × 1 5/8 in. (35.6 × 4.1 cm)
Credit LineTransferred from the Knox Hall of Natural History, Hamilton College
Object number1984.456
Not on view
DescriptionLeather with dentalium shell red trade cloth "white heart" and Russian faceted blue beads. Files note that this style of hair decoration was worn by women of high or noble birth. Some historic documentation lists this object as a belt pendant from a Plains tribe.

Additional Details

Exhibition History 2011
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Learning to Look: Hamilton's Cabinets, Galleries and Museums Past, Present and Future," September 15 - December 16, 2011 (no cat.);

1985
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Wonderful Heroes Fearsome Creatures," November 2 - December 14, 1985 (cat. no. 1, illus. 19).
Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Emerson Gallery), by transfer from the Anthropology Department;
? - 1984: Hamilton College (Anthropology Department), by transfer from the Knox Hall of Natural History;
by 1925: Hamilton College (Knox Hall of Natural History), by gift from an unknown donor (research pending).
Published References WONDERFUL HEROES FEARSOME CREATURES: ART OF THE NORTHWEST COAST, exh. cat. (Clinton, NY: Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1985), 19, illus. 19.
Inscribed Inscribed in marker on verso at top of narrow section on white shell: Na Pl / 12
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