Parrot Feather Headdress - Amazon
Parrot feather headdress. Woven inner ring holds feathers from parrot, toucan, and/or other birds in shades of red, white, yellow, and blue.
- Object: Parrot Feather Headdress - Amazon
- Artist: -
- Circa: -
- Dimensions: 26.5cmW 65cmH
- Culture Area: South America
- Cultural Group: Unspecified / poss Tukanoan
- Cultural Context: A very similar headring from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian: "This Tukanoan headdress artfully combines feathers from three different bird species. Together these colors represent the conjoined cosmic forces that make possible human well-being. To wear such a headdress during a ceremony is an assertion of virtue as well." https://americanindian.si.edu/exhibitions/infinityofnations/amazon/160375.html#top
- Donor: Sharon Koch
- Catalog #: 114.077