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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