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Headdress

Assiniboine antelope-horn headdress
ca. 1850
Saskatchewan, Canada
Antelope horn, deer hide, porcupine quills, feathers, horsehair, red wool, brass bells, glass beads
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    • George Catlin, an early observer, remarked that only those “whose exceeding valor, worth, and power is admitted by all the nation” wore headgear with animal horns attached—emblems of power.

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    Karl Bodmer

    Karl Bodmer, “Noapeh-An Assiniboin Indian/Psihdja-Sahpa, A Yanktonon”, 1840, lithograph. Collection of Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada 56.50.34.

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