Document Type
Other
Date of this Version
12-11-2017
Embargo Date
12-12-2018
Publication Source
Penn Museum Blog
Abstract
The feather headdress labeled 38-2-1 in the Penn Museum Collection is richly colored and composed of many types of materials. It consists of a felt cap with a leather forehead band covered with a panel of vivid loomed beadwork (in orange, blue, yellow, and white tipi shapes) and two beaded rosettes (blue, yellow, white, and red) on either end of the band. Hanging from each side are ear pendants made of buckskin with metal beads attached, and dyed downy feathers and long ribbons trail from the headdress. Extending from the top of the band are felt cylinders (faded perhaps due to light exposure?), red and yellow down feathers, and long turkey feathers topped off with more green and pink down feathers.
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Recommended Citation
Bruchac, M. (2017). Levi Levering's Headdress: Blurring Borders and Bridging Cultures. Penn Museum Blog, Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/anthro_papers/173
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Date Posted: 24 May 2018