МАЭ № 4104-11

Ceremonial headdress

Kodiak Eskimos

19th c.

Russian circumnavigations and half round-the-world sea expeditions

sealskin, sea bear leather, puffin beaks, sinew, caribou hair, woolen thread, cotton thread, cloth, paint

height 20 cm, length 34 cm, width 18 cm

This headdress is made in the shape of the European “three-cornered” hats which were worn in Europe at the beginning of the 19th Century. Thus this ceremonial headdress was most likely made in the early 19th Century.

Ethnography of America