E0543: Headwear

Ethnographic

Identifier:
E0543
Classification Category:
3:Personal Artifacts ➞ Clothing ➞ Headwear
Marks/Labels:
There is very faint writing on the front of the paper "Bracelet is worn below the ?" "From the ?" there is some that can't be made out.
Materials:
paper
animal ➔ hair
Dimensions:
Provenance of Object:
This object was held in the museum that Luther College started in 1877. This museum eventually grew into the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, and following this, non-Norwegian American ethnographic objects were returned to Luther and accessioned into the college’s Anthropology Collection. Without additional documentation, was likely obtained by the Luther College Museum (later the Norwegian-American Museum) between the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Source Locality:
USA
Description:
Circular piece of paper that has gray hair sewn in bunches of 5/6ths of its circumference.
Related Collections
Accession: 1996.ETHN62, 1/1/96
Donated by: Unknown
(1996.ETHN62)