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- Culture/People
- Plains Cree (Prairie Cree)
- MAI Agent
- Charles F. Newcombe (C.F. Newcombe), Non-Indian, 1851-1924
- Possible collector
- Edgar Dewdney, Non-Indian, 1835-1916
- Previous owner
- Edgar Dewdney, Non-Indian, 1835-1916
- Presenter/funding source
- James Bishop Ford (James B. Ford), Non-Indian, 1844-1928
- Collection History
- Formerly in the collection of Edgar Dewdney (1835-1916), Indian commissioner for Canada's Northwest Territories (1879-1888), Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories (1881-1888), and Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1892-1897), and probably collected by him between 1879 and 1888; purchased by MAI from his widow Blanche Kemeys-Tynte Dewdney (1854-1936) through Charles F. Newcombe (1851-1924, a physician and collector in British Columbia) in 1917 using funds donated by MAI trustee James B. Ford (1844-1928).
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- Place
- Alberta or Saskatchewan; Canada (inferred)
- See related items
- Plains Cree (Prairie Cree)
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 7/2401
- Barcode
- 072401.000
- Object Type
- Ceremonial/Ritual items
- Object Name
- Headdress (Image withheld)
- Media/Materials
- Feather/feathers
- Techniques
- Wrapped, tied
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_77557