Headband

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Vermont Historical Society

Name/Title

Headband

Entry/Object ID

L2024.3.165

Description

Black, white, and blue beaded headband.

Context

This is a beautiful loom-woven beaded headband with white and blue designs reminiscent of the Wabanaki Confederacy double scroll. There is nothing diagnostic about it at all. It was given to Frederick Wiseman at the 1996 Heritage Days Pow Wow by an older Abenaki man who said that it was worn by his mother “many years ago,” which may have put it back before the 1970 Missisquoi Renaissance.

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

Abenaki Cultural Conservancy

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Headband

Clothing Sex

Female

Textile Details

Material

Beads

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1960

Place

Town

Swanton

County

Franklin County

State/Province

Vermont

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

Abenaki

Native American

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Headband

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Headwear

Nomenclature Class

Clothing

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects