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Rare American Indian shaman headdress

Great Plains, North America

Shaman's headdress, great plains


Object: Shaman's headdress
Ethnicity: American Indians from the great Plains
Period: Between 1930s and 1940s pre Washington convention(before 1947).
Cities Nr.: 2020/BE00405/CE
Origin: Great Plains, North America
Material: Buffalo horns with buffalo fur, 33 golden eagle feathers, patinated over the years, at the end of the train a tail of an animal, very likely from an otter
Height: Circa 170 cm
Provenance :
Charles David (Curator of the Indian life Museum), bought it in Paris in 1965
Museum of Indian life collection, Recogne, Belgium
Gallery Cecile Kerner, Brussels
Private collection
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