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Roach headdress
Native American, Plains
late 19th century
Object Place: Plains
Medium/Technique
Deer hair, rabbit pelt, cotton cording
Dimensions
Length: 58.4 cm (23 in.)
Lender accessory (Mount): 12.7 x 25.4 cm (5 x 10 in.)
Lender accessory (Mount): 12.7 x 25.4 cm (5 x 10 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Clifford S. Ackley in honor of Nancy and Alan Shestack
Accession Number2016.795
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionHeaddress with leather base with longer hair through center and shorter white and dyed orange hair along outer sides, with paif of long ties at end.
ProvenanceSeptember 4, 1987, sold by Hurst Gallery, Cambridge, MA to Clifford S. Ackley, Boston; 2016, gift of Clifford S. Ackley to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2016)