roach headdress, unrecorded Hinono’eino artist

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unrecorded Hinono’eino artist, roach headdress
unrecorded Hinono’eino artist, roach headdress
unrecorded Hinono’eino artist
roach headdress
early 1900s
roach headdress, early 1900s
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: wool yarn; string; deer hair; weaving; dyeing; porcupine hair; buckskin
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Length (Height x Width x Length): approximately 19 x 44 x 56 cm
Object Height/Width/Length (Height x Width x Length): 7 1/2 x 17 5/16 x 22 1/16 in
Credit line: Gift from the estate of Gertrude W. Green
Accession number: 2007.0418
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Passages: Persistent Visions of a Native Place," Sep-2011, Nancy Mahaney This graceful roach headress has been expertly crafted. A roacher spreader made of bone or antler is used inside the roach to attach it to the dancer’s head and to help the headress retain its shape. The origins of the roach are thought to derive from the northeastern tribes, to have spread west to the northern plains tribes and then south, where is was adopted by the southern and eastern plains tribes. The use of red dye to color the animal hair is said to represent the prairie fire, and the black and white the charred land and ash that usher in the renewal of the land after the burning.