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Feather Headdress
Not on view
Colonel Richard Irving Dodge recorded in his 1882 memoir that the great Lakota chief Red Cloud owned this headdress. As a composite, the headdress represents bravery, political rank, and leadership, and each eagle tail feather recalls a distinct honor earned in war. Headdresses with long trailers are among the most spectacular objects of Plains ceremonial regalia. They transformed warriors on horseback into birds in flight.