| Religion and Ritual
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Feather head-dress, Tsuu T'ina, 1922 This ceremonial head-dress was made by Jim Starlight, a minor chief from the Sarcee Reserve in Alberta. This head-dress adorned with black eagle plumes, tipped with white ermine and horsehair, and six pendants of ermine pelts, tipped with red feathers. The long-tailed Plains war bonnet has come to represent "Indianness," but the truth is that ceremonial head-dresses of other Native cultures look very different. CMC V-D-198 |
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Sarcee (Tsuu T'ina) chiefs, Calgary Stampede, ca. 1930 Glenbow Archives, Calgary, NA 4951-9 |
