adornment;feather adornment;feather adornment

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Accession Number
OBJ_0026717
Culture
Blackfoot?
Materials and Techniques
Great horned owl feathers
leather
cotton thread
Place
?Manitoba
Canada
North America
Description
RAMM has no information about this particular item and would welcome advice from Native North Americans as to its identification and how to appropriately care for this item beyond the standard context of museum care (e.g. smudging). Possibly a dance bustle.

Leather has been commercially tanned.

Feathers have been identified as belonging to the great horned owl, Bubo virginianus

Prior to its re-accessioning 2007 this item was wrongly catalogued as African.

This object is not on display.
Description
RAMM has no information about this particular item and would welcome advice from Native North Americans as to its identification and how to appropriately care for this item beyond the standard context of museum care (e.g. smudging). Possibly a dance bustle.

Leather has been commercially tanned.

Feathers have been identified as belonging to the great horned owl, Bubo virginianus

Prior to its re-accessioning 2007 this item was wrongly catalogued as African.

This object is not on display.
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Record Rights
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
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