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The Ceremonial Garb collection includes a vast array of headress, masks and other clothing worn by the American Indian tribes on display here at out museum. Our collection includes pieces from the early 1700's up to modern day. Please provide feedback on your visit with us as we always look to improve and expand upon our current exhibit.

Ceremonial Garb

Ceremonial Garb
Ceremonial dress with drum

Headband

Headband
Culture: Native American, Plains Dates: 20th century Dimensions: 29 15/16 x 2 3/16 in. (76.0 x 5.5 cm)

Headdress

Headdress
Headdresses were a symbolic, as well as artistic item for the Native Americans. There are many different styles of headdress and bonnets and worn for different occasions or special events. Eagle feather headdresses represent a great tradition of the Native American, but few people understand the meaning behind them. Eagle feathers were only given for special feats or displays of bravery and often warriors only attained a few in their lifetime. Horned headdresses were used by Indians on the western Great Plains. They were generally created by making a cap of buffalo hide and then horns were added for decoration. Only warriors of a certain stature were allowed to wear these horned caps.

Long Headdress

Long Headdress
Replica single trailer headdress inspired by Hunkpapa Lakota headdress, North Dakota, worn by Chief Rain in the Face, 1884-85

Cerimonial Moccasins

Cerimonial Moccasins
Medium: Hide, beads Place Made: Pahuska, Osage Village, Oklahoma, USA Dates: early 20th century Dimensions: Each: 10 13/16 x 4 5/16 in. (27.5 x 11 cm)

Long Headdress 2

Long Headdress 2
Artist O.J. Laier III Dimensions Length 80 | Width 23 inches

Mask

Mask
Nepcetat (One That Sticks to the Face) Mask, about 1840–60. Central Yup’ik, probably lower Yukon River, Alaska. Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0231

Crooked Beak of Heaven Mask

Crooked Beak of Heaven Mask
Kwakwaka'wakw, British Columbia, late 19th century

Horse mask 2

Horse mask 2
Assiniboine/Sioux horse mask, 2008. Montana. Made by Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty (Assiniboine/Sioux, b. 1969). Porcupine quills, seed beads, brass buttons, feathers, and hide. Photograph by Ernest Amoroso, NMAI. (26/7046)

Horse Mask

Horse Mask
Horse Mask, about 1875–1900. Nimi’ipuu (Nez Perce) or possibly Cayuse, Idaho, Oregon, or east Washington. Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0097.

mask 2

mask 2
Artist: Troy Roberts Tribal affiliation: Kwakiutl Carved from red cedar with acrylic paint and abalone and copper inlay,Depth - 32" | Width closed - 42" | Width open - 52" | Height - 34"

mask

mask
Artist: Troy Roberts Tribal affiliation: Kwakiutl Carved from red cedar with acrylic paint & varathane - all Canadian products. 3 sets of pulleys move the tail, head and fins

Baleen Whale Mask

Baleen Whale Mask
Culture: Kwakwaka'wakw Medium: Cedar wood, hide, cotton cord, hide, nails, pigment Dates: 19th century Dimensions: 23 5/8 x 28 1/2 x 81 1/8 in. (60 x 72.4 x 206 cm)

Finger Masks

Finger Masks
Woman’s Dance Fans (Finger Masks), about 1870. Central Yup’ik, Alaska. Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0229a,b.

Shirt

Shirt
A’ani/Nakoda (Gros Ventre/Assiniboine)

Dress

Dress
A Cheyenne three-hide dress made by Rebecca Hamilton Brady and Jon Brady of Pawnee, Oklahoma. The dress is made of commercial hide, cut-glass beads, synthetic ribbon, cowrie shells, bone hair pipes, fire-polished glass beads, rhinestones, horsehair, paint, canvas, rawhide and thread. (Ernest Amoroso/Smithsonian)

ceremonial shirt

ceremonial shirt
Hide, wool, glass beads, fur, cotton, silk National Museum of the American Indian-Smithsonian Institution, 14.9264
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