Jumping Dance Headdress

Jumping Dance Headdress

Late 1800s
Culture
Yurok
Locale
California
Country
United States
Object
headband, dance
Medium
Red woodpecker skins, blue bird feathers, albino deer hide, pigment, and wood
Accession Number
1944.50
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Donald Bromfield

Yurok artist, Headband, late 1800s. Woodpecker feathers, fur, deerskin, pigment, and wood; 29½ x 9 in. Denver Art Museum: Gift of Mrs. Donald Bromfield, 1944.50

Dimensions
length: 29 1/2 in, 74.93 cm; width: 9 in, 22.8600 cm
Department
Native Arts
Collection
Indigenous Arts of North America
Known Provenance
Grace Nicholson [1877-1948], Pasadena, CA; Mrs. Donald Bromfield, of Denver, CO, before 1944; Denver Art Museum, 1944.
Exhibition History
  • City Hall Gallery - September 15, 1944

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