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- Omaha peoples
- roach headdress, late 1800s–1959
- Where object was made: Macy, Nebraska, United States
- deer fur, porcupine hair, porcupine quills, feathers, thread, metal, dyeing
- Object Height/Width/Length: approximately 18 x 38 x 58 cm
Object Height/Width/Length: approximately 7 1/16 x 14 15/16 x 22 13/16 in - Gift of Stanley N. Shumway
- Not on display
- 2007.0419
- Omaha peoples
- Open page with bookmarkable url
- Multimedia
- Description
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This roach has a tall ruff of dark brown porcupine hair with yellow tips. There is a row of red deer fur outside of the porcupine hair and a band of red deer fur inside the long hair, then a band of yellow deer fur. The center is filled with clipped yellow deer fur, then the natural white color (if it is white-tail deer fur). There are five long porcupine quills dotting the crown of the roach. They are wrapped with a metallic thread with small metal discs wrapped near the ends and downy white feathers on the ends. The hair and fur lay to the sides making this a wide roach.