Subject: chief / shaman
Culture: Tsimshian, Tlingit, other Northwest Coast tribes
Setting: Potlatch, Northwest Coast late 19th - early 20thc
Object: shakee.at headdress/frontlet
National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center > Listening to Our Ancestors *
"Shakee.at (headdress depicting a Raven), used to scatter down feathers during dances, 1860-1890
Carved and painted wood, ermine, wool, cotton, sea lion whiskers, swan or eagle down, abalone shell."
"X'axeiltk'yi naahat (dance collar), ca. 1900
Wool, cotton, glass beads, silk, brass."
* Houston Museum of Natural Science > McGovern Hall of the Americas
"Dance Headdress (Tlingit),
early 20th century"
Metropolitan Museum of Art > Americas *
"Headdress Frontlet Tsimshian (?),
British Columbia, 1880-1900
Wood, paint, abalone shell
* Carnegie Museum of Natural History > Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians
"FRONTLET[S]"
* Carnegie Museum of Natural History > Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians
"FRONTLET Tsimshian, collected 1904
This type of frontlet is worn as a headdress, usually with a trailer of ermine skins.
As a dancer shakes his head from side to side during a dance,
white bird down floats out from the crown of sea lion whiskers."
* National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center > Beauty Surrounds Us
"Tlingit frontlet headdress ca. 1870 Nass River, British Columbia, Canada
Hide, maple or alder wood, ermine skins, abalone, sea lion whiskers, wool cloth, eagle down, paint"
* National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center > Listening to Our Ancestors: Native Life along the North Pacific Coast
"Chief's headdress, ca. 1880 Carved and painted wood, cedar bark, cloth, hide,
ermine skins, tail feathers of the red-shafted flicker, abalone shell, sea lion whiskers."
American Museum of Natural History > Hall of Northwest Coast Indians *
"Headdress"
* National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center > Listening to Our Ancestors: Native Life along the North Pacific Coast
"maas gwiikw (ceremonial headdress) used to establish the identity of nax nok, 1860-1890
Albino groundhog skin, ermine skin and fur, yellow-shafted flicker feathers, abalone shelll, wood, cotton, iron, copper, pigment."
* American Museum of Natural History > Hall of Northwest Coast Indians
"TSIMSHIAN HEADDRESSES
Headdresses worn in Tsimshian ceremonies. A popular portrait-headdress of wood,
often with abalone shell inlay, has a trailer of buck-skin covered with ermine skins.
The carving represents supernatural beings or the owner's crest."
American Museum of Natural History > Hall of Northwest Coast Indians *
"Ceremonial headdress [replica...]"
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Americas
"Headdress Frontlet Tsimshian (?),
British Columbia, late 19th century
Wood, paint, abalone shell"
Metropolitan Museum of Art > Americas *
"Headdress Frontlet Tsimshian,
British Columbia, 1820-1840
Wood, paint, abalone shell
