Hoopa, Hoopa Valley Reservation / Humboldt County, California, United States, North America
Accession Date:
22 Aug 1944
Notes:
From card: "Made of mink skin split along belly and two edges cut into fringes; to nose is fastened a braid made of porcupine quills, fern, and hazel root woven with "hitel" thread, yellow colored. Obtained from Shoemaker Robinson [sic] who said it was only one he had ever seen."
Robinson Shoemaker was a Hupa consultant for Pliny Earle Goddard. See p. 265 of Goddard, Pliny Earle. 1903. Life and Culture of the Hupa. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, volume 1, number 1,