Personal Adornment
Ethnographic Collections
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Huron Porcupine Quilled Epaulets (Ontario)
circa 1877
Catalog Number: 79-1-17/5
Two rounded triangular shoulder ornaments made of birch bark and edged in taffeta or silk. Each has a floral design sewn with cotton. Written on the back is 'Indian wampum - given by Miss Rhoda Taylor 1877.' -
Oglala Lakota Hair Ornament (Plains)
circa 1904
Catalog Number: 82-1-16/20
Hair ornament made from leather and decorated with brass, glass beads, bone hair pipe stained red and coins dated 1886, 1902 and 1904. -
Navajo Concha Belt (Southwest)
circa 1930
Catalog Number: 82-1-40/12
Hand-worked silver belt with a rectangular buckle with fourteen oval conchas. -
Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace (Southwest)
circa 1950s
Catalog Number: 06-2-1/7
Silver and green-blue turquoise squash blossom necklace with bottom crescent-shaped 'Naja' piece. The squash blossom necklace was not considered traditional until after the arrival of Europeans, specifically the Spanish.
