Accession No

1930.686 E


Description

Headdress made from buffalo horns. Incomplete.


Place

Americas; North America; Canada; Manitoba


Period


Source

Rymill, Robert [collector]; Clarke, Louis Colvile Gray [monetary donor]


Department

Anth


Reference Numbers

1930.686 E; BU 57


Cultural Affliation

C=Plains; T=Anishinabe; T=Ojibwa; Bungay


Material

Horn; Buffalo horn


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1930.686: 'A Medecine Man's [sic Medicine Man's] dress. Leggings of buffalo hide, shirt probably of buckskin. The headdress is not complete.'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan


Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for 1930.686: 'Bungay' and 'Ojibwa'
Event Date
Author: Kirsty Kernohan


Context (Related Documents)
BU 57 refers to the headdress. Rymill's field notes describe it as 'Buffalo horns. Part of a headdress. Goes with BU 26.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Description for 1930.686 A-E: 'A: shirt, probably made from buckskin. B & C: leggings, made from buffalo hide. D: breech cloth. E: headdress, which is not complete.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Collected by Robert Rymill with his brother John Rymill and Donald A. Cadzow during the Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies in 1929.
Event Date 1929
Author: Katrina Dring


Context (Related Documents)
Brown, Alison K. 1998. Catalogue of the Rymill Collection in the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. MAA Archives FA5/1/12. Copy of the Rymill Collection binders which were created by Alison Brown funded by a Crowther-Beynon grant

Event Date 1998
Author: Katrina Dring


Context (References)
Brown, Alison K. 2014. First Nations, Museums, Narrations: Stories of the 1929 Franklin Motor Expedition to the Canadian Prairies. Vancouver: UBC Press. 
Event Date 2014
Author: Katrina Dring


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