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Dakota (Sioux) Head band. Coale Coll. (Haupt del) length, 16¼ inches width 3 1/8 " length of thong 6¼ "

Dakota Hair ornament. Coale Coll. (Haupt del) diameter 2½ inches. thickness ¼ "

The Dakota Squaw is not like the men permitted to don the war bonnet and eagle plumes but she confines her self to the wearing of a head band this is a strip of buckskin of elongated strips very irregular in out line. but ornamented to suit the fancy of the squaw this she wears tied across her forehead This head band is made of two pieces secured together and is ornamented with rectangular makings of beads In the centre the beads are white with blue central blocks on either end this central [?] is marked off by a line of deep blue and yellow beads in parallel lines the yellow in the middle. On the right and left are patches of green beads with red central blocks and a parting of blue & yellow are in the center The ends are of green beads with a central block of white. At the lower edge of the band are ten points of yellow porcupine quills and at the top and bottom of each of the blue and yellow lines of beads are strips of buckskin terminated with the tin cones and horsehair dyed yellow. This head band was owned and worn by "Crow Kane" a squaw captured at Pine Ridge in 1890 while at war with the United States troops, and she said that he yellow horse hair the indians collected from the helmets of the cavelery troops killed at the Custer massacre in Montana.

    Hair ornaments are among the most common articles of apparel and even if the buck wears no clothing he still considers himself well dressed if he have an ornament in his hair   The styles and forms of this kind of decoration is very great and we can only at this time give the type  the common form is a circle or ring made of wood and covered with any convenient material.   The chief object is a shiney object that will attract attention but in the case of the Hair ornament worn by Standing Bear "Matonoji" a prisoner at Fort Sheridan Ills.  The [?] of the ornament seems to be its [?] [?]    It consists of a thin strip of wood 3/8 inches wide formed into a ring and bound with sinews to the circumference of this ring and twenty seven strands of buckskin tied and each seems to be tied to its neighbor one after the other till the center is reached here a [?] is made of fur strands and at the intersection two long thongs are left to secure it to the head.   This is all colored red. more or less brilliant.
  Some times the ring is covered with strands of braided porcupine quills of different colors as in the Davel necklace shown in this chapter.   This ornament seems to be peculiar to the Dakota stock.